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          AN ACT
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        relating to certain statutory insurance deposit requirements. | 
      
      
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               BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | 
      
      
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               SECTION 1.  Subsections (d) and (f), Section 406.006,  | 
      
      
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        Insurance Code, are amended to read as follows: | 
      
      
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               (d)  The commissioner shall issue a letter approving or an  | 
      
      
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        order [approving or] denying an application under this section not  | 
      
      
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        later than the 30th day after the date the department receives the  | 
      
      
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        application.  If the commissioner does not approve or deny the  | 
      
      
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        application within that period, the application is denied. | 
      
      
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               (f)  The comptroller may not release a deposit made under  | 
      
      
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        this chapter, or any part of the deposit, and may not accept a  | 
      
      
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        substitute for a deposited security unless the commissioner issues  | 
      
      
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        a letter [an order] approving the withdrawal or substitution. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act apply to an  | 
      
      
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        application for substitution or withdrawal of a deposit filed on or  | 
      
      
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        after the effective date of this Act.  An application filed before  | 
      
      
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        the effective date of this Act is governed by the law applicable to  | 
      
      
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        the application immediately before that date, and that law is  | 
      
      
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        continued in effect for that purpose. | 
      
      
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               SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives  | 
      
      
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        a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as  | 
      
      
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        provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this  | 
      
      
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        Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this  | 
      
      
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        Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | 
      
      
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           President of the Senate | 
        Speaker of the House      | 
      
      
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               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 631 passed the Senate on  | 
      
      
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        March 13, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0. | 
      
      
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        Secretary of the Senate     | 
      
      
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               I hereby certify that S.B. No. 631 passed the House on  | 
      
      
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        May 17, 2013, by the following vote:  Yeas 134, Nays 0, two  | 
      
      
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        present not voting. | 
      
      
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        Chief Clerk of the House    | 
      
      
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        Approved: | 
      
      
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                  Governor |