Texas 2025 89th Regular

Texas Senate Bill SB213 Introduced / Bill

Filed 11/12/2024

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                    89R1713 CJD-D
 By: West S.B. No. 213




 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT
 relating to prohibiting insurers from requiring the bundling of
 personal lines property or casualty insurance policies.
 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 541, Insurance Code, is
 amended by adding Section 541.062 to read as follows:
 Sec. 541.062.  REQUIRED BUNDLING OF PERSONAL LINES PROPERTY
 OR CASUALTY POLICIES. It is an unfair method of competition or an
 unfair or deceptive act or practice in the business of insurance to
 require a consumer to purchase:
 (1)  multiple personal lines property or casualty
 insurance policies from the same insurer; or
 (2)  a personal line property or casualty insurance
 policy as a condition for the issuance of another personal line
 property or casualty insurance policy.
 SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.