2025 Texas Statutes
Insurance Code - Not Codified
Title 1 - The Insurance Code of 1951
Chapter 5 - Rating and Policy Forms
Subchapter C. Fire Insurance and Allied Lines
Article 5.41. Rebating or Discrimination

(a) A company engaging or participating in the insuring or reinsuring of any property in this state against loss or damage by fire may not knowingly write insurance at any lesser rate than the rates herein provided for, and it shall be unlawful for any company so to do, unless it shall thereafter file an analysis of same with the Board.

(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) of this article, on and after the effective date of S.B. No. 14, Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003, rates for homeowners and residential fire and residential allied lines insurance coverage under this subchapter are determined as provided by Subchapter Q of this chapter, and rates for other lines of insurance subject to this subchapter are determined as provided by Article 5.13-2 of this code, except that on and after December 1, 2004, rates for all lines of insurance subject to this subchapter are determined as provided by Article 5.13-2 of this code.

Acts 1951, 52nd Leg., p. 868, ch. 491.

Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 242, Sec. 2.36, eff. Sept. 1, 1991; Subsec. (b) amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., 2nd C.S., ch. 12, Sec. 8.21, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 984, Sec. 24, eff. Sept. 1, 1995; Subsec. (b) amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1330, Sec. 16, eff. Sept. 1, 1997; Subsec. (b) amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 206, Sec. 21.27, eff. June 11, 2003.

Amended by:

Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 727 (H.B. 2017), Sec. 9, eff. April 1, 2007.