Texas Insurance Code

§ 501.154 — ACCESS TO INFORMATION

IN § 501.154Title 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 public counsel:

(1)is entitled to the same access as a party, other than department staff, to department records available in a proceeding before the commissioner or department under the authority granted to the public counsel by this chapter; and

(2)is entitled to obtain discovery under Chapter 2001, Government Code, of any nonprivileged matter that is relevant to the subject matter involved in a proceeding or submission before the commissioner or department as authorized by this chapter.

Legislative history

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