By: Cain S.B. No. 1650 Line and page numbers may not match official copy. Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the licensing of insurance agents. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Section 20, Article 21.14, Insurance Code, is 1-4 amended to read as follows: 1-5 Sec. 20. Life, health and accident insurance, inapplicable 1-6 to; other exceptions. No provisions of this article shall apply to 1-7 the Life, Health and Accident Insurance business or the Life, 1-8 Health and Accident Department of the companies engaged therein, 1-9 nor shall it apply to any of the following, namely: 1-10 (a) Any actual full-time home office salaried employee of 1-11 any insurance carrier licensed to do business in Texas. 1-12 (b) Any actual attorney-in-fact and its actual traveling 1-13 salaried representative as to business transacted through such 1-14 attorney in fact or salaried representative of any reciprocal 1-15 exchange or interinsurance exchange admitted to do business in 1-16 Texas. 1-17 (c) Any adjuster of losses, and/or inspector of risks, for 1-18 an insurance carrier licensed to do business in Texas. 1-19 (d) Any General Agent or State Agent or Branch Manager 1-20 representing an admitted and licensed insurance company or carrier, 1-21 or insurance companies or carriers, in a supervisory capacity. 2-1 (e) The actual attorney in fact for any Lloyds. 2-2 (f) All incorporated or unincorporated mutual insurance 2-3 companies, their agents and representatives, organized and/or 2-4 operating under and by authority of Chapters 16 and 17 of this 2-5 code. 2-6 (g) Nothing in this entire article shall ever be construed 2-7 to apply to any member, agent, employee, or representative of any 2-8 county or farm mutual insurance company as exempted under Chapters 2-9 16 and 17 of this code. 2-10 (h) Nothing in this article shall apply to the group motor 2-11 vehicle insurance business or the group motor vehicle department of 2-12 the companies engaged in that business. 2-13 (i) Salaried employees not involved in solicitation or 2-14 negotiation of insurance in the office of the local recording agent 2-15 who devote their full time to clerical and administrative services 2-16 including the incidental taking of information from customers and 2-17 receipt of premiums in the office of the local recording agent, as 2-18 long as the employees do not receive any commission and their 2-19 compensation is not varied by the volume of premiums taken and 2-20 received. 2-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 2-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.