Bill Text: TX SB411 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas Senate Bill 411 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relating to insurers' duty to provide information in a fraud investigation.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2013-05-18 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB411 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB411-Comm_Sub.html



	By: Carona	S.B. No. 411
	(In the Senate - Filed February 6, 2013; February 13, 2013,
	read first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce;
	February 27, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
	Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0;
	February 27, 2013, sent to printer.)

	COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 411	By: Carona


	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT

	relating to insurers' duty to provide information in a fraud
	investigation.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Section 701.108, Insurance Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 701.108. INSURER'S DUTY TO PROVIDE INFORMATION.
	(a) On the written request of an authorized governmental agency,
	an insurer shall provide to the agency any relevant information or
	material relating to a matter under investigation.
	(b) An insurer must respond to a request under Subsection
	(a) from the department not later than the 15th day after the date
	the request is received. On written request of the insurer, the
	department shall extend the period 10 days.
	SECTION 2. Section 701.108, Insurance Code, as amended by
	this Act, applies only to a request by the Texas Department of
	Insurance made 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 when the request was made, and the former law is
	continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.

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