2021 Texas Statutes
Insurance Code
Title 11 - Title Insurance
Subtitle D - Title Insurance Professionals
Chapter 2651 - Title Insurance Agents and Direct Operations
Subchapter G. License Denial and Disciplinary Action
Section 2651.303. Notice of Disciplinary or Enforcement Action; Automatic Dismissal
Sec. 2651.303. NOTICE OF DISCIPLINARY OR ENFORCEMENT ACTION; AUTOMATIC DISMISSAL. (a) The department shall notify a license holder in writing of a disciplinary or enforcement action against the license holder not later than the 30th business day after the date the department assigns a file number to the action, except that this subsection does not apply to a file or action:
(1) that is the subject of a pending criminal investigation or prosecution; or
(2) about which the deputy commissioner of the title division of the department makes a good faith determination that there is a credible suspicion that there are ongoing or continuing acts of fraud by a person who is the subject of the action.
(b) A notice required by Subsection (a) may be provided by e-mail and must provide a license holder fair notice of the alleged facts known by the department on the date of the notice that constitute grounds for the action.
(c) A disciplinary or enforcement action is automatically dismissed with prejudice, unless the department serves a notice of hearing on the license holder not later than the 60th business day after the date the department receives a hearing request from the license holder.
(d) The department may provide information about an enforcement action, including a copy of a notice issued under this section, to each title insurance company with which a title insurance agent has, or proposes to obtain, an appointment.
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1011 (H.B. 2408), Sec. 5, eff. September 1, 2011.
