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          AN ACT
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        relating to certain continuing education requirements for agents  | 
      
      
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        who sell annuities. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Section 4004.202(b), Insurance Code, is amended  | 
      
      
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        to read as follows: | 
      
      
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               (b)  Each agent described by Subsection (a) must complete  | 
      
      
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        eight [four] hours of continuing education [annually] that  | 
      
      
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        specifically relates to annuities during the agent's two-year  | 
      
      
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        licensing period.  [The annual period under this section must be 
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          based on the agent's license expiration date or another date 
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          specified by the commissioner by rule, and the education 
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          requirement under this subsection must be met within that annual 
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          period, notwithstanding Section 4004.051(b).] | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | 
      
      
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           President of the Senate | 
        Speaker of the House      | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 2154 was passed by the House on April  | 
      
      
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        6, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 142, Nays 1, 1 present, not  | 
      
      
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        voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B.  | 
      
      
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        No. 2154 on May 27, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 136, Nays 0,  | 
      
      
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        3 present, not voting. | 
      
      
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        Chief Clerk of the House    | 
      
      
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               I certify that H.B. No. 2154 was passed by the Senate, with  | 
      
      
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        amendments, on May 17, 2011, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays  | 
      
      
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        0 | 
      
      
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        Secretary of the Senate    | 
      
      
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        APPROVED: __________________ | 
      
      
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                      Governor        |