Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. Line and page numbers may not match official copy. By Lewis of Tarrant H.B. No. 3147 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the licensing of insurance agents. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 20, Article 21.14, Insurance Code, is 1-5 amended to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 20. Life, health and accident, inapplicable to; other 1-7 exceptions. No provisions of this article shall apply to the Life, 1-8 Health and Accident Insurance business or the Life, Health and 1-9 Accident Department of the companies engaged therein, nor shall it 1-10 apply to any of the following, namely: 1-11 (a) Any actual full-time home office salaried employee of 1-12 any insurance carrier licensed to do business in Texas. 1-13 (b) Any actual attorney in fact and its actual traveling 1-14 salaried representative as to business transacted through such 1-15 attorney in fact or salaried representative of any reciprocal 1-16 exchange or interinsurance exchange admitted to do business in 1-17 Texas. 1-18 (c) Any adjuster of losses, and/or inspector of risks, for 1-19 an insurance carrier licensed to do business in Texas. 1-20 (d) Any General Agent or State Agent or Branch Manager 1-21 representing an admitted and licensed insurance company or carrier, 1-22 or insurance companies or carriers, in a supervisory capacity. 1-23 (e) The actual attorney in fact for any Lloyds. 1-24 (f) All incorporated or unincorporated mutual insurance 2-1 companies, their agents and representatives, organized and/or 2-2 operating under and by authority of Chapters 16 and 17 of this 2-3 code. 2-4 (g) Nothing in this entire article shall ever be construed 2-5 to apply to any member, agent, employee, or representative of any 2-6 county or farm mutual insurance company as exempted under Chapters 2-7 16 and 17 of code. 2-8 (h) Nothing in this article shall apply to the group motor 2-9 vehicle insurance business or the group motor vehicle department of 2-10 the companies engaged in that business. 2-11 (i) Salaried employees not involved in solicitation or 2-12 negotiation of insurance in the office of a local recording agent 2-13 who devote their full time to clerical and administrative services 2-14 including the incidental taking of information from customers and 2-15 receipt of premiums in the office of the local recording agent, as 2-16 long as the employees do not receive any commissions and their 2-17 compensation is not varied by the volume of premiums taken and 2-18 received. 2-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 2-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-22 emergency and the imperative public necessity that the 2-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.