Tex. Ins. Code § 4001.158 · Subchapter D. TEMPORARY LICENSE
REPLACEMENT OF EXISTING LIFE INSURANCE OR ANNUITY CONTRACT PROHIBITED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A temporary license holder who is acting under the authority of that license may not:
(1) engage in an insurance solicitation, sale, or other agency transaction that the license holder knows or should know will result or is intended to result in:
(A) the purchase of a new life insurance or annuity contract; and
(B) any of the following actions with regard to an existing individual life insurance or annuity contract as a result of that purchase:
(i) termination of the contract by lapse, forfeiture, surrender, or other means;
(ii) conversion of the contract to reduced paid-up insurance, continuation of the contract as extended term insurance, or reduction in value of the contract by the use of nonforfeiture benefits or other policy values;
(iii) amendment of the contract to reduce:
(a) benefits; or
(b) the term for which coverage would otherwise remain in force or for which benefits would be paid;
(iv) reissuance of the contract with a reduction in cash value; or
(v) pledge of the contract as collateral or subjection of the contract to borrowing, whether in a single loan or under a schedule of borrowing, for amounts that in the aggregate exceed 25 percent of the loan value prescribed by the contract; or
(2) directly or indirectly receive a commission or other compensation that results or may result from a solicitation, sale, or other agency transaction described by Subdivision (1).
(b) A person who holds a permanent license may not circumvent or attempt to circumvent the intent of this section by acting for or with a person holding a temporary license.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 7, eff. April 1, 2005.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/IN/htm/IN.4001.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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