1-1     By:  Ellis                                             S.B. No. 321
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 29, 1999; February 2, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
 1-4     March 11, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
 1-5     Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; March 11, 1999,
 1-6     sent to printer.)
 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 321                    By:  Ellis
 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-9                                   AN ACT
1-10     relating to collection of attorney's fees in certain contract
1-11     actions.
1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 38.006, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,
1-14     is amended to read as follows:
1-15           Sec. 38.006.  EXCEPTIONS.  This chapter does not apply to a
1-16     contract issued by an insurer to the extent fees are recovered
1-17     under [that is subject to the provisions of]:
1-18                 (1)  [Article 3.62, Insurance Code;]
1-19                 [(2)  Section 1, Chapter 387, Acts of the 55th
1-20     Legislature, Regular Session, 1957 (Article 3.62-1, Vernon's Texas
1-21     Insurance Code);]
1-22                 [(3)]  Chapter 9, Insurance Code;
1-23                 (2) [(4)]  Article 21.21, Insurance Code; [or]
1-24                 (3) [(5)]  the Unfair Claim Settlement Practices Act
1-25     (Article 21.21-2, Insurance Code); or
1-26                 (4)  Article 21.55, Insurance Code.
1-27           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-28     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-32     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-33     passage, and it is so enacted.
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