Texas Insurance Code
§ 562.104 — MARKETING OF PROGRAM
IN § 562.104Title 5. PROTECTION OF CONSUMER INTERESTS · Part C. DECEPTIVE, UNFAIR, AND PROHIBITED PRACTICES · Ch. 562. UNFAIR METHODS OF COMPETITION AND · Art. C. REGULATION OF PRACTICES
Statute text
View on source(a)A program operator may market directly or contract with marketers for the distribution of the program operator's discount health care programs.
(b)A program operator shall enter into a written contract with a marketer before the marketer begins marketing, promoting, selling, or distributing the program operator's discount health care program. The contract must prohibit the marketer from using an advertisement, solicitation, or other marketing material or a discount card that has not been approved in advance and in writing by the program operator.
(c)A program operator must approve in writing before their use all advertisements, solicitations, or other marketing materials and all discount cards used by marketers to market, promote, sell, or distribute the discount health care program.
(d)Each advertisement, solicitation, or marketing material of a discount health care program must clearly and conspicuously state that the discount health care program is not insurance.
Legislative history
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 1331 (H.B. 4341), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2009.