Bill Text: TX SB2306 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to a presentation by the commissioner of insurance on the National Association of Insurance Commissioners accreditation process and participation in the National Conference of Insurance Legislators.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-21 - Referred to Business & Commerce [SB2306 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-SB2306-Introduced.html
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By: Taylor | S.B. No. 2306 |
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relating to a presentation by the commissioner of insurance on the | ||
National Association of Insurance Commissioners accreditation | ||
process and participation in the National Conference of Insurance | ||
Legislators. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 31, Insurance Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 31.008 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 31.008. PARTICIPATION IN NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF | ||
INSURANCE LEGISLATORS. The department shall pay annually from | ||
department funds the costs of: | ||
(1) the state's membership in the National Conference | ||
of Insurance Legislators; and | ||
(2) full participation in the National Conference of | ||
Insurance Legislators by the chairs and ranking members of the | ||
standing committees of the senate and the house of representatives | ||
with primary jurisdiction over insurance or finance. | ||
SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 31, Insurance Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 31.029 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 31.029. PRESENTATION ON NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF | ||
INSURANCE COMMISSIONERS ACCREDITATION PROCESS. (a) Except as | ||
provided by Subsection (e), during the first year of each state | ||
fiscal biennium, the commissioner shall provide to each standing | ||
committee of the senate and the house of representatives with | ||
primary jurisdiction over insurance, or if determined by rules of | ||
those standing committees, each standing committee of the senate | ||
and the house of representatives with primary jurisdiction over | ||
finance, a presentation regarding the accreditation process for the | ||
National Association of Insurance Commissioners. | ||
(b) The presentation must: | ||
(1) provide an overview of the role of delegation of | ||
legislative authority for policy development in the National | ||
Association of Insurance Commissioners accreditation process; | ||
(2) explain how state laws incorporate National | ||
Association of Insurance Commissioners accreditation standards or | ||
incorporate rules, standards, and processes by reference, and | ||
provide citations to those laws; | ||
(3) identify in a separate format each provision of | ||
law that may authorize future changes by the National Association | ||
of Insurance Commissioners to be adopted without additional | ||
authorization by the legislature, highlighting any future | ||
delegation authority in the laws or rules of this state; and | ||
(4) provide an overview of the minimum National | ||
Association of Insurance Commissioners accreditation standards | ||
relating to: | ||
(A) laws and regulations; | ||
(B) regulatory practices and procedures; and | ||
(C) organizations and personnel practices. | ||
(c) The overview presented under Subsection (b)(4) must | ||
include: | ||
(1) summaries of the specific laws and rules that the | ||
accreditation standard specifies; | ||
(2) the intended purpose of each accreditation | ||
standard; | ||
(3) the date that the accreditation standard was | ||
adopted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and | ||
the date that the standard was adopted in this state; and | ||
(4) any change to the accreditation standards since | ||
the last presentation to the legislature. | ||
(d) The commissioner may make the presentation at a joint | ||
hearing of the applicable committees under Subsection (a). | ||
(e) Instead of providing the presentation required under | ||
Subsection (a), the department may coordinate with the National | ||
Association of Insurance Commissioners to conduct a training | ||
session that contains the same information required under | ||
Subsection (b) that is specific to the laws of this state during a | ||
National Association of Insurance Commissioners meeting. | ||
(f) If the department exercises the option under Subsection | ||
(e), the department shall pay from funds the costs associated with | ||
registration and reimbursement for reasonable food, travel, and | ||
lodging for two committee members from the standing committee of | ||
the senate with primary jurisdiction over insurance, two committee | ||
members from the standing committee of the house of representatives | ||
with primary jurisdiction over insurance, and one committee member | ||
from the standing committee of each chamber with primary | ||
jurisdiction over appropriations to attend the meeting. | ||
SECTION 3. The commissioner of insurance shall provide the | ||
first presentation required under Section 31.029, Insurance Code, | ||
as added by this Act, not later than September 1, 2020. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. |