Sec. 202.006.  FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES.  (a)  A financial holding company may engage in a financial activity or an activity incidental or complementary to a financial activity if the activity has been authorized by:
(1)  the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System under 12 U.S.C. Section 1843(k);  or
(2)  a rule adopted by the finance commission under Subsection (b).
(b)  The finance commission by rule may determine that an activity not otherwise approved or authorized under this chapter, federal law, or other law is:
(1)  a financial activity;
(2)  incidental to a financial activity;  or
(3)  complementary to a financial activity.
(c)  In adopting a rule under Subsection (b), the finance commission shall consider:
(1)  the purposes of this subtitle and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (Pub.  L. No. 106-102);
(2)  changes or reasonably expected changes in the marketplace in which financial holding companies compete;
(3)  changes or reasonably expected changes in the technology for delivering financial services;
(4)  whether the activity is necessary or appropriate to allow a financial holding company to:
(A)  compete effectively with another company seeking to provide financial services;
(B)  efficiently deliver information and services that are financial in nature through the use of technological means, including an application necessary to protect the security or efficacy of systems for the transmission of data or financial transactions;  or
(C)  offer customers available or emerging technological means for using financial services or for the document imaging of data;  and
(5)  if otherwise determined to be permissible, whether the conduct of the activity by a financial holding company should be qualified through the imposition of reasonable and necessary conditions to protect the public and require appropriate regard for safety and soundness of the holding company's subsidiary banks and the financial system generally.
(d)  A determination by the board of governors under federal law or by a rule of the finance commission under this section does not alter or negate applicable licensing and regulatory requirements administered by a functional regulatory agency of this state.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 528, Sec. 31, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.