Tex. Ins. Code § 848.003 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
USE OF INSURANCE-RELATED TERMS BY HEALTH CARE COLLABORATIVE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A health care collaborative that is not an insurer or health maintenance organization may not use in its name, contracts, or literature:
(1) the following words or initials:
(A) "insurance";
(B) "casualty";
(C) "surety";
(D) "mutual";
(E) "health maintenance organization"; or
(F) "HMO"; or
(2) any other words or initials that are:
(A) descriptive of the insurance, casualty, surety, or health maintenance organization business; or
(B) deceptively similar to the name or description of an insurer, surety corporation, or health maintenance organization engaging in business in this state.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., 1st C.S., Ch. 7 (S.B. 7), Sec. 4.01, eff. September 28, 2011.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/IN/htm/IN.848.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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