Bill Text: TX HB986 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to certain amounts payable by the Texas Life, Accident, Health, and Hospital Service Insurance Guaranty Association.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-28 - Referred to Insurance [HB986 Detail]

Download: Texas-2011-HB986-Introduced.html

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82R5971 PMO-D
By: Christian H.B. No. 986

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to certain amounts payable by the Texas Life, Accident,
Health, and Hospital Service Insurance Guaranty Association.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 463.204, Insurance Code, is amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 463.204. OBLIGATIONS EXCLUDED. A contractual
obligation does not include:
(1) death benefits in an amount in excess of $300,000
or a net cash surrender or net cash withdrawal value in an amount in
excess of $250,000 [$100,000] under one or more policies on a single
life;
(2) an amount in excess of:
(A) $250,000 [$100,000] in the present value
under one or more annuity contracts issued with respect to a single
life under individual annuity policies or group annuity policies;
or
(B) $5 million in unallocated annuity contract
benefits with respect to a single contract owner regardless of the
number of those contracts;
(3) an amount in excess of the following amounts,
including any net cash surrender or cash withdrawal values, under
one or more accident, health, accident and health, or long-term
care insurance policies on a single life:
(A) $500,000 for basic hospital,
medical-surgical, or major medical insurance, as those terms are
defined by this code or rules adopted by the commissioner;
(B) $300,000 for disability and long-term care
insurance, as those terms are defined by this code or rules adopted
by the commissioner; or
(C) $200,000 for coverages that are not defined
as basic hospital, medical-surgical, major medical, disability, or
long-term care insurance;
(4) an amount in excess of $250,000 [$100,000] in
present value annuity benefits, in the aggregate, including any net
cash surrender and net cash withdrawal values, with respect to each
individual participating in a governmental retirement benefit plan
established under Section 401, 403(b), or 457, Internal Revenue
Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. Sections 401, 403(b), and 457), covered by
an unallocated annuity contract or the beneficiary or beneficiaries
of the individual if the individual is deceased;
(5) an amount in excess of $250,000 [$100,000] in
present value annuity benefits, in the aggregate, including any net
cash surrender and net cash withdrawal values, with respect to each
payee of a structured settlement annuity or the beneficiary or
beneficiaries of the payee if the payee is deceased;
(6) aggregate benefits in an amount in excess of
$300,000 with respect to a single life, except with respect to:
(A) benefits paid under basic hospital,
medical-surgical, or major medical insurance policies, described
by Subdivision (3)(A), in which case the aggregate benefits are
$500,000; and
(B) benefits paid to one owner of multiple
nongroup policies of life insurance, whether the policy owner is an
individual, firm, corporation, or other person, and whether the
persons insured are officers, managers, employees, or other
persons, in which case the maximum benefits are $5 million
regardless of the number of policies and contracts held by the
owner;
(7) an amount in excess of $5 million in benefits, with
respect to either one plan sponsor whose plans own directly or in
trust one or more unallocated annuity contracts not included in
Subdivision (4) irrespective of the number of contracts with
respect to the contract owner or plan sponsor or one contract owner
provided coverage under Section 463.201(a)(3)(B), except that, if
one or more unallocated annuity contracts are covered contracts
under this chapter and are owned by a trust or other entity for the
benefit of two or more plan sponsors, coverage shall be afforded by
the association if the largest interest in the trust or entity
owning the contract or contracts is held by a plan sponsor whose
principal place of business is in this state, and in no event shall
the association be obligated to cover more than $5 million in
benefits with respect to all these unallocated contracts;
(8) any contractual obligations of the insolvent or
impaired insurer under a covered policy or contract that do not
materially affect the economic value of economic benefits of the
covered policy or contract; or
(9) punitive, exemplary, extracontractual, or bad
faith damages, regardless of whether the damages are:
(A) agreed to or assumed by an insurer or
insured; or
(B) imposed by a court.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only
to an insurer that first becomes an impaired or insolvent insurer on
or after the effective date of this Act. An insurer that becomes an
impaired or insolvent insurer before the effective date of this Act
is governed by the law as it existed immediately before that date,
and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.