Tex. Ins. Code § 885.306 · Subchapter G. BENEFITS PROVIDED BY FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES
BENEFIT CERTIFICATE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A fraternal benefit society may not deliver or issue for delivery in this state a benefit certificate unless the form of the certificate has been filed under Chapter 1701.
(b) Each benefit certificate issued by a fraternal benefit society must:
(1) specify the amount of benefits provided under the certificate;
(2) state the amount of premiums that are payable under the certificate; and
(3) provide that the certificate, the society's charter or articles of incorporation or, if the society is a voluntary association, the society's articles of association, the fraternal benefit society's laws, the application for membership and medical examination, signed by the applicant, and all amendments to each of those constitute the agreement between the society and the member.
(c) An amendment to a fraternal benefit society's charter, articles of incorporation or association, or laws made or enacted after the issuance of a benefit certificate:
(1) binds the member and the member's beneficiaries; and
(2) controls the agreement in all respects as if the amendment had been in force at the time of the application for membership.
(d) A life, accident, health, or disability insurance benefit certificate or annuity benefit certificate issued by a fraternal benefit society must meet the requirements applicable to similar policies issued by an insurer in this state that are not inconsistent with this chapter as determined by rule of the commissioner.
(e) A copy of a document described by Subsection (b)(3), certified by a fraternal benefit society's secretary or corresponding officer, shall be admitted as evidence of the terms of the agreement between the society and the member.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1419, Sec. 1, eff. June 1, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 730 (H.B. 2636), Sec. 2E.092, eff. April 1, 2009.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/IN/htm/IN.885.htm
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