By: Fraser S.B. No. 1542
 
 
 
   
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to registration statements filed by an insurer that is a
member of an insurance company holding system.
       BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
       SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 823.052, Insurance Code,
is amended to read as follows:
       (a)  To register as required by Section 823.051, an insurer
must file [with the department] a registration statement with the
department [and a copy of the charter or articles of incorporation
and bylaws of the insurer's holding company, each of the insurer's
subsidiaries, and, if the commissioner considers the information
necessary, any of the insurer's other affiliates].
       SECTION 2.  Section 823.055, Insurance Code, is amended to
read as follows:
       Sec. 823.055.  ANNUAL REGISTRATION STATEMENT; SUMMARY OF
MATERIAL CHANGES  [AMENDMENTS; CONSOLIDATION OF AMENDMENTS].  
(a)  In this section, "ultimate controlling person" means the
person in an insurance holding company system who is not controlled
by another person.
       (b)  Not later than the 120th day after the last day of each
fiscal year of the ultimate controlling person, each registered
insurer in the ultimate controlling person's insurance holding
company system shall file an annual [amendment to the insurer's]
registration statement [filed under this subchapter to make the
registration statement current].
       (c)  An insurer required to file an annual registration
statement shall also furnish a summary of material changes from the
prior year's annual registration statement as specified by [Not
later than the 120th day after the last day of each calendar year
ending in a five or a zero, each registered insurer in the ultimate
controlling person's insurance holding company system shall file a
completely restated registration statement that consolidates all
amendments to the most recently filed registration statement into
that statement and contains all changes occurring since the last
amendment was filed. The consolidated registration statement must
be in the format that] the commissioner [adopts] by rule.
       [(d)  A registered insurer is not required to file an
amendment under Subsection (b) in the year in which the insurer
files a consolidated registration statement under Subsection (c).]
       SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.