Amend CSSB 956 as follows: (1) In Section 1A(9), Article 21.07, Insurance Code, as amended by SECTION 1.10 of the bill (page 12, line 56, senate committee printing), strike "licenses" and substitute "licenses. However, the sub-agent must be properly licensed to write each type of insurance that the sub-agent is employed to write" (2) Strike Section 2(g)(1), Article 21.07, Insurance Code, as amended by SECTION 1.11 of the bill (page 14, lines 6-14, senate committee printing), and substitute the following: (1) an errors and omissions policy insuring the individual agent against errors and omissions in at least the sum of $250,000 with a deductible of not more than 10 percent of the face amount of the policy issued by an insurance company licensed to do business in this state, or, if a policy cannot be obtained from a company licensed to do business in this state, through a properly obtained surplus lines policy; or (3) Strike Section 4(b), Article 21.07-1, Insurance Code, as added by SECTION 2.01 of the bill (page 23, line 62, through page 24, line 12, senate committee printing), and substitute the following: (b) This section applies to: (1) a funeral prearrangement life insurance agent; (2) an agent for an insurance company that writes only job protection insurance; (3) an agent for a stipulated premium company who writes life insurance not to exceed $15,000 on any one life, except that a license is not required under this section for an agent for a stipulated premium company who wrote policies that generated, in the aggregate, less than $20,000 in direct premium for the preceding calendar year; (4) an agent for a local mutual aid association, a local mutual burial association, or a statewide mutual aid association; (5) an agent writing policies or riders to policies that provide only: (A) lump-sum cash benefits in the event of accidental death, death by accidental means, or dismemberment; or (B) ambulance expense benefits in the event of accident or sickness; (6) an agent writing prepaid legal services contracts under Article 5.13-1 or Chapter 23 of this code; (7) the marketing, offering for sale, or delivery of credit insurance products for use by a person, regardless of whether the person holds a specialty license issued by the department under this code, who is: (A) a retail distributor of goods; (B) an automobile dealer; (C) a bank, state or federal savings and loan, or state or federal credit union; (D) a finance company; (E) a production credit association; or (F) a retailer of manufactured housing, including mobile homes; and (8) an agent writing any other type of insurance required by the commissioner to be licensed for the protection of the insurance consumers of this state. (4) Strike Section 6(a), Article 21.14, Insurance Code, as added by SECTION 3.01 of the bill (page 25, lines 29-57, senate committee printing), and substitute the following: (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a limited property and casualty license is required for each person who desires to act as an agent writing: (1) insurance only on growing crops under Article 21.14-2 of this code; (2) any form of insurance authorized under Chapter 16 of this code for a farm mutual insurance company, except that a license is not required under this subsection for a person who wrote policies that generated, in the aggregate, less than $50,000 in direct premium for the preceding calendar year; (3) exclusively all forms of insurance authorized to be solicited and written in this state that cover the ownership, operation, maintenance, or use of a motor vehicle that is designed for use on the public highways, including a trailer or semitrailer, and the motor vehicles' accessories or equipment; (4) prepaid legal services contracts under Article 5.13-1 or Chapter 23 of this code; (5) only industrial fire insurance policies covering dwellings, household goods, and wearing apparel on a weekly, monthly, or quarterly basis on a continuous premium payment plan written for an insurance company whose business is devoted exclusively to that business as described by Article 17.02 of this code, except that a license is not required under this subsection for a person who wrote industrial fire insurance policies that generated, in the aggregate, less than $20,000 in direct premium for the preceding calendar year; (6) the marketing, offering for sale, or delivery of credit insurance products for use by a person, regardless of whether the person holds a specialty license issued by the department under this code, who is: (A) a retail distributor of goods; (B) an automobile dealer; (C) a bank, state or federal savings and loan, or state or federal credit union; (D) a finance company; (E) a production credit association; or (F) a retailer of manufactured housing, including mobile homes; and (7) any other type of insurance as required by the commissioner for the protection of the insurance consumers of this state. (5) Strike SECTION 8.02(a) of the bill (page 50, lines 57-62, senate committee printing), and substitute the following: (a) A person who, immediately before the effective date of this Act, holds an agent license issued by the Texas Department of Insurance and who obtained that license by passing a written examination, whether administered by the insurance carrier, company, or state testing contractor, is entitled to the appropriate license as provided by Subchapter A, Chapter 21, Insurance Code, as amended by this Act, without further examination.