Tex. Ins. Code § 1203.051 · Subchapter B. DENTAL INSURANCE
APPLICABILITY OF SUBCHAPTER; EXCEPTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This subchapter applies only to an insurance policy that provides benefits for dental expenses, including, except as provided by Subsection (b), an individual, group, blanket, or franchise insurance policy or insurance agreement, or a group hospital service contract, that is offered by:
(1) an insurance company;
(2) a group hospital service corporation operating under Chapter 842;
(3) a fraternal benefit society operating under Chapter 885;
(4) a stipulated premium company operating under Chapter 884;
(5) a reciprocal exchange operating under Chapter 942; or
(6) a Lloyd's plan operating under Chapter 941.
(b) This subchapter does not apply to a separate dental policy that exclusively provides a non-coordinated, fixed indemnity benefit, regardless of expenses incurred paid directly to the policyholder or to the provider under an assignment of benefits provision.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 572 (H.B. 3024), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2015.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/IN/htm/IN.1203.htm
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Insurance Code
- Tex. Ins. Code ch. 842GROUP HOSPITAL SERVICE CORPORATIONSPrinted as Chapter 842
- Tex. Ins. Code ch. 884STIPULATED PREMIUM INSURANCE COMPANIESPrinted as Chapter 884
- Tex. Ins. Code ch. 885FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETIESPrinted as Chapter 885
- Tex. Ins. Code ch. 942RECIPROCAL AND INTERINSURANCE EXCHANGESPrinted as Chapter 942
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