Bill Text: TX HB3754 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced

Texas House Bill 3754 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relating to access to consumer information regarding roofing contractors.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-24 - Referred to Insurance [HB3754 Detail]

Download: Texas-2015-HB3754-Introduced.html

	84R12646 PMO-D

	By: Miller of Comal	H.B. No. 3754



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to access to consumer information regarding roofing
	contractors.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subtitle B, Title 5, Insurance Code, is amended
	by adding Chapter 525 to read as follows:
	CHAPTER 525. CONSUMER GUIDE TO ROOFING CONTRACTORS
	Sec. 525.001. DEFINITION. In this chapter, "roofing
	contractor" means an individual or entity that installs,
	constructs, maintains, repairs, alters, or modifies a roofing
	product for a commercial or residential roof.
	Sec. 525.002. CONSUMER GUIDE; ADVISORY COMMITTEE. (a) The
	department shall develop a consumer guide to post on the
	department's Internet website that consumers may access to obtain
	information about selecting a roofing contractor in connection with
	an insurance claim.
	(b) The commissioner shall appoint a committee to advise the
	department regarding the information to include in the consumer
	guide. The advisory committee shall be composed of an equal number
	of members from each of the following groups of stakeholders:
	(1) roofing contractors, including independent
	roofing contractors;
	(2) license holders under Chapters 4101 and 4102;
	(3) property and casualty insurers; and
	(4) consumers.
	Sec. 525.003. CONSUMER GUIDE INFORMATION FOR CLAIMANTS.
	The commissioner by rule shall require, in consultation with the
	advisory committee established under Section 525.002, an insurer to
	include with the insurer's acknowledgment of receipt of the claim
	under Section 542.055 for a loss related to a roof:
	(1) notice that a consumer guide to selecting a
	roofing contractor in connection with the claim is available on the
	department's Internet website and the Internet address of the
	department's website; or
	(2) the information included in the consumer guide
	developed under Section 525.002.
	SECTION 2. The commissioner of insurance shall ensure that
	the consumer guide developed under Section 525.002, Insurance Code,
	as added by this Act, is posted on the Internet website of the Texas
	Department of Insurance and available to insurers for inclusion in
	an acknowledgment of the receipt of a claim not later than January
	1, 2016.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.