&nbsp; <font style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial"><strong>Legislative Session</strong>: 79(R)</font><br/><br/>



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  <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><b>House Bill 2017</b></p>

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  <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><b>House Author:</b>  Swinford</p>

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  <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><b>Effective:</b>  4-1-07</p>

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  <p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><b>Senate Sponsor:</b>  Harris</p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;

font-family:Arial'>            <a name=start></a>House Bill 2017, a

continuation of the legislature's ongoing statutory revision program, contains

nonsubstantive changes adding four titles to the Insurance Code, repealing

source law from which the new code content is derived, and making other

conforming changes.  The new titles relate to property and casualty insurance,

the regulation of solvency, </span><span

style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>utilization review and independent

review, and other types of insurance coverage, including credit involuntary

employment insurance, mortgage guaranty insurance, and surety bonds and related

instruments.</span></p>



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