Bill Text: TX SB498 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to building code requirements for residential property insured by the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-05-28 - Effective immediately [SB498 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB498-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to building code requirements for residential property insured by the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2015-05-28 - Effective immediately [SB498 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB498-Comm_Sub.html
By: Taylor of Galveston | S.B. No. 498 | |
(In the Senate - Filed February 9, 2015; February 11, 2015, | ||
read first time and referred to Committee on Business and Commerce; | ||
April 15, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 8, | ||
Nays 1; April 15, 2015, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to building code requirements for residential property | ||
insured by the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2210.251(f), Insurance Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, | ||
insurance coverage for a residential structure may be issued or | ||
renewed through the association subject to the inspection | ||
requirements imposed under Section 2210.258, if applicable. [ |
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SECTION 2. Sections 2210.258(a) and (c), Insurance Code, | ||
are amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) Except as provided by Subsection (c) [ |
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to be eligible for insurance through the association, all | ||
construction, alteration, remodeling, enlargement, and repair of, | ||
or addition to, any structure located in the catastrophe area that | ||
is begun on or after the effective date of Sections 5 through 49, | ||
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2009, must be performed in compliance with the applicable building | ||
code standards, as set forth in the plan of operation. | ||
(c) The association may insure a residential structure | ||
constructed, altered, remodeled, enlarged, repaired, or added to on | ||
or after June 19, 2009, that is not in compliance with the | ||
applicable building code standards, as set forth in the plan of | ||
operation, provided that: | ||
(1) the structure had been insured on or after June 19, | ||
2009, by an insurer in the private market that canceled or | ||
nonrenewed the insurance coverage of the structure [ |
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(2) the applicant provides to the association proof | ||
that insurance coverage that was issued to the applicant or the | ||
previous insured for the structure was canceled or nonrenewed in | ||
the private market as described by Subdivision (1); and | ||
(3) no construction, alteration, remodeling, | ||
enlargement, or repair of, or addition to, the structure occurred | ||
after cancellation or nonrenewal of the coverage and before | ||
submission of an application for coverage through the association. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 2210.2581, Insurance Code, is repealed. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
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