Bill Text: TX HB3703 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 3703 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to waiver of continuing education requirements for certain insurance adjusters.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-09 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3703 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB3703-Comm_Sub.html

	85R26176 SMT-F

	By: Gooden	H.B. No. 3703

	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3703:

	By: Phillips	C.S.H.B. No. 3703



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to waiver of continuing education requirements for certain
	insurance adjusters.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 4101.060, Insurance Code, is amended by
	adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
	(d) Notwithstanding Section 4004.051, the department shall
	waive any continuing education requirement imposed under this
	chapter or Chapter 4004 for an adjuster who, during the license
	period for which the continuing education is required, receives a
	certificate of completion of a continuing education program issued
	by a professional organization of adjusters if:
	(1) the number of hours required to complete the
	continuing education program is not less than the number of hours of
	continuing education that an adjuster is required to complete
	during the license period under Sections 4004.053 and 4004.054; and
	(2) the content of the continuing education program
	includes the content required under Section 4004.105.
	SECTION 2. (a) Not later than December 1, 2017, the
	commissioner of insurance shall adopt the rules necessary to
	implement Section 4101.060(d), Insurance Code, as added by this
	Act.
	(b) The change in law made by Section 4101.060(d), as added
	by this Act, applies to continuing education requirements for an
	insurance adjuster's license period beginning on or after January
	1, 2018.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.