Texas Insurance Code

§ 424.060 — AUTHORIZED INVESTMENTS: STOCK OF NATIONAL OR STATE BANK

IN § 424.060Title 4. REGULATION OF SOLVENCY · Part B. RESERVES AND INVESTMENTS · Ch. 424. INVESTMENTS FOR CERTAIN INSURERS · Art. B. INVESTMENT OF FUNDS IN EXCESS

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(a)An insurer may invest the insurer's funds in excess of minimum capital and surplus in the stock of:

(1)a national bank; or

(2)a state bank of this state whose deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

(b)Notwithstanding Subsection (a)(2):

(1)not more than 35 percent of the total outstanding stock of a single state bank may be purchased by a single insurer; and

(2)if an insurer has invested the insurer's funds in 35 percent of a state bank's stock under this section, no other insurer may invest funds in the bank's remaining stock.

Legislative history

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 727 (H.B. 2017), Sec. 1, eff. April 1, 2007.