Texas Insurance Code

§ 501.151 — POWERS AND DUTIES OF OFFICE

IN § 501.151Title 5. PROTECTION OF CONSUMER INTERESTS · Part A. PUBLIC INSURANCE COUNSEL · Ch. 501. OFFICE OF PUBLIC INSURANCE COUNSEL · Art. D. POWERS AND DUTIES

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The office:

(1)may assess the impact of insurance rates, rules, and forms on insurance consumers in this state; and

(2)shall advocate in the office's own name positions determined by the public counsel to be most advantageous to a substantial number of insurance consumers.

Legislative history

Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 2, eff. April 1, 2005.