Bill Text: TX HB2681 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to certain information provided in certain insurance rate filings.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-26 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB2681 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB2681-Comm_Sub.html
82R13968 RWG-F | |||
By: Hartnett | H.B. No. 2681 | ||
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2681: | |||
By: Smithee | C.S.H.B. No. 2681 |
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relating to certain information provided in certain insurance rate | ||
filings. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2251.002(8), Insurance Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(8) "Supporting information" means: | ||
(A) the experience and judgment of the filer and | ||
the experience or information of other insurers or advisory | ||
organizations on which the filer relied; | ||
(B) the interpretation of any other information | ||
on which the filer relied; | ||
(C) a description of methods used in making a | ||
rate; and | ||
(D) any other information the department | ||
receives from a filer as a response to a request under Section | ||
38.001 [ |
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SECTION 2. Section 2251.107, Insurance Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
Sec. 2251.107. PUBLIC [ |
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filing made, and any supporting information filed, under this | ||
chapter is public information subject to Chapter 552, Government | ||
Code, including any applicable exception from required disclosure | ||
under that chapter [ |
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SECTION 3. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
a request to inspect information or to obtain public information | ||
made to the Texas Department of Insurance on or after the effective | ||
date of this Act. A request made before the effective date of this | ||
Act is governed by the law in effect immediately before the | ||
effective date of this Act, and the former law is continued in | ||
effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |