Sec. 402.001.  APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (b), this chapter applies to:
(1)  each of the following domestic or commercially domiciled insurers:
(A)  a capital stock insurance company;
(B)  a mutual insurance company;
(C)  a title insurance company;
(D)  a fraternal benefit society;
(E)  a Lloyd's plan;
(F)  a reciprocal or interinsurance exchange;
(G)  a group hospital service corporation or a nonprofit hospital, medical, or dental service corporation;
(H)  a risk retention group; and
(I)  a nonprofit legal services corporation; and
(2)  a domestic or commercially domiciled health maintenance organization.
(b)  This chapter does not apply to a domestic insurer that engages in the business of insurance only in this state or to a domestic health maintenance organization that engages in the business of a health maintenance organization only in this state until the insurer or health maintenance organization is authorized to engage in the business of insurance or the business of a health maintenance organization, as applicable, in another state.
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 727 (H.B. 2017), Sec. 1, eff. April 1, 2007.