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89(R) HB 2517 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

  

  

  
 H.B. No. 2517

  

  

  

  

 AN ACT

  

 relating to the applicability of premium and maintenance taxes to 

  

 the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association and Texas FAIR Plan 

  

 Association.

  

        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

  

        SECTION 1.  Section 221.001(b), Insurance Code, is amended 

  

 to read as follows:

  

        (b)  This chapter does not apply to:

  

              (1)  a fraternal benefit society, including a fraternal 

  

 benefit society operating under Chapter 885;

  

              (2)  a group hospital service corporation operating 

  

 under Chapter 842;

  

              (3)  a stipulated premium company operating under 

  

 Chapter 884;

  

              (4)  a mutual assessment association, company, or 

  

 corporation regulated under Chapter 887;

  

              (5)  a purely cooperative or mutual fire insurance 

  

 company carried on by its members solely for the protection of their 

  

 own property and not for profit, except as provided by Section 

  

 221.002(b)(13); [or]

  

              (6)  a farm mutual insurance company operating under 

  

 Chapter 911, unless the company is acting as a fronting insurer;

  

              (7)  the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association; or

  

              (8)  the Texas FAIR Plan Association.

  

        SECTION 2.  Section 252.005, Insurance Code, is amended to 

  

 read as follows:

  

        Sec. 252.005.  EXCEPTION. This chapter does not apply to:

  

              (1)  a farm mutual insurance company operating under 

  

 Chapter 911, unless the company is acting as a fronting insurer as 

  

 defined by Section 221.001(c); [or]

  

              (2)  a mutual insurance company engaged in business 

  

 under Chapter 12, Title 78, Revised Statutes, before that chapter's 

  

 repeal by Section 18, Chapter 40, Acts of the 41st Legislature, 1st 

  

 Called Session, 1929, as amended by Section 1, Chapter 60, General 

  

 Laws, Acts of the 41st Legislature, 2nd Called Session, 1929, that 

  

 retains the rights and privileges under the repealed law to the 

  

 extent provided by those sections;

  

              (3)  the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association; or

  

              (4)  the Texas FAIR Plan Association.

  

        SECTION 3.  The changes in law made by this Act do not affect 

  

 tax liability accruing before the 2023 calendar year.  The 

  

 liability continues in effect as if this Act had not been enacted, 

  

 and the former law is continued in effect for the collection of 

  

 taxes due and for enforcement of the liability for those taxes.

  

        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.

  

  

  
 ______________________________
 ______________________________

  
    President of the Senate
 Speaker of the House     

  

  

   

        I certify that H.B. No. 2517 was passed by the House on May 2, 

   

 2025, by the following vote:  Yeas 117, Nays 18, 1 present, not 

   

 voting.

   

   

 ______________________________

   

 Chief Clerk of the House   

  

  

   

        I certify that H.B. No. 2517 was passed by the Senate on May