Sec. 171.052.  CERTAIN CORPORATIONS.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (c), an insurance organization, title insurance company, or title insurance agent authorized to engage in insurance business in this state that is required to pay an annual tax measured by its gross premium receipts is exempted from the franchise tax.  A nonadmitted insurance organization that is required to pay a gross premium receipts tax during a tax year is exempted from the franchise tax for that same tax year.  A nonadmitted insurance organization that is subject to an occupation tax or any other tax that is imposed for the privilege of doing business in another state or a foreign jurisdiction, including a tax on gross premium receipts, is exempted from the franchise tax.
(b)  Farm mutuals, local mutual aid associations, and burial associations are not subject to the franchise tax.
(c)  An entity is subject to the franchise tax for a tax year in any portion of which the entity is in violation of an order issued by the Texas Department of Insurance under Section 2254.003(b), Insurance Code, that is final after appeal or that is no longer subject to appeal.
Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1693, ch. 389, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.  Amended by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 30, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 26, 1985;  Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 546, Sec. 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1994;  Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1275, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001;  Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 209, Sec. 33, eff. Oct. 1, 2003.
Amended by: 
Acts 2006, 79th Leg., 3rd C.S., Ch. 1 (H.B. 3), Sec. 3, eff. January 1, 2008.
Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 569 (S.B. 734), Sec. 5, eff. June 14, 2013.
Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1232 (H.B. 500), Sec. 4, eff. January 1, 2014.
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1236 (S.B. 1296), Sec. 16.003, eff. September 1, 2015.