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.