By Averitt                                            H.B. No. 3274
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to insurance service representatives and clerical
 1-3     personnel supervised by agents; and declaring an emergency.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Amend Article 21.14, Section 2(a)(5), of the
 1-6     Insurance Code to read as follows:
 1-7                 (5)  "Insurance service representative" means a
 1-8     solicitor employed on a salaried basis who performs assigned duties
 1-9     only within the office of a local recording agent, which may
1-10     include binding insurance risks, but only with the express prior
1-11     approval of the local recording agent who supervises the insurance
1-12     service representative [for whom the representative works].
1-13           SECTION 2.  Amend Article 21.14, Section 20(i), of the
1-14     Insurance Code to read as follows:
1-15           (i)  Salaried individuals [employees] not involved in
1-16     solicitation or negotiation of insurance supervised in the office
1-17     of a local recording agent who devote their full time to clerical
1-18     and administrative services, including the incidental taking of
1-19     information from customers and receipt of premiums in the office of
1-20     a local recording agent, provided the employees do not receive any
1-21     commissions and their compensation is not varied by the volume of
 2-1     premiums taken and received.
 2-2           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-3           SECTION 4.  EMERGENCY CLAUSE.  The importance of this
 2-4     legislation and the crowded condition of the calendars in both
 2-5     houses create an emergency and an imperative public necessity that
 2-6     the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-8     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-9     passage, and it is so enacted.