Bill Text: TX HB2355 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the acceptance of gifts, grants, and donations by the Texas Department of Insurance and the office of public insurance counsel for employee training or education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-01 - Referred to Business & Commerce [HB2355 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2355-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the acceptance of gifts, grants, and donations by the Texas Department of Insurance and the office of public insurance counsel for employee training or education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2023-05-01 - Referred to Business & Commerce [HB2355 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB2355-Introduced.html
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By: Cortez | H.B. No. 2355 |
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relating to the acceptance of gifts, grants, and donations by the | ||
Texas Department of Insurance for employee training or education. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 31, Insurance Code, is | ||
amended by adding Section 31.046 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 31.046. ACCEPTANCE OF GIFTS, GRANTS, AND DONATIONS FOR | ||
EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF DEPARTMENT EMPLOYEES. (a) In addition to | ||
money appropriated by the legislature, the department may accept | ||
gifts, grants, and donations from any source to provide funding for | ||
department employees to participate in educational events or | ||
trainings and for other purposes related to employee education, | ||
including education relating to: | ||
(1) any insurance line, product, or service; or | ||
(2) any other topic that may assist the department in | ||
performing the department's duties under Section 31.002. | ||
(b) The commissioner may adopt rules to administer this | ||
section. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |