Sec. 3. The State Board of Insurance, after notice and hearing as hereinafter provided, is authorized to reactivate the Joint Underwriting Association created by Article 21.49-3, Insurance Code. A hearing to determine the need for reactivation shall be set by the State Board of Insurance on petition of the Texas Medical Association, the Texas Podiatry Association, or the Texas Hospital Association or as many as 15 physicians or health care providers practicing or operating in this state, or such hearing may be set by the State Board of Insurance on its own finding that physicians or health care providers, or any category thereof, in this state are threatened with the possibility of being unable to secure medical liability insurance. At least 15 days prior to the date set, notice of the hearing shall be given to each insurer which, if reactivation is ordered, would be a member of the association as provided in Section 3(a), Article 21.49-3, Insurance Code. If the board finds that reactivation of the Joint Underwriting Association will be in the public interest, the board shall order the reactivation, designating the category or categories of physicians or health care providers who shall be eligible to secure medical liability insurance coverage from the association and specifying in the order a date not fewer than 15 nor more than 60 days thereafter on which the provisions of Article 21.49-3, Insurance Code, shall become effective as if the same had been reenacted to be effective on the date specified in the order.

Added by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 5031, ch. 904, Sec. 2, eff. Aug. 29, 1983.