(a) An insurer or group of insurers (participating insurers) may test a transmission system based on the transmission of insurer provided key-data to provide verification of compliance with the Texas Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act.
(b) Further specifics for the test program will be developed by the department, TxDOT, DPS, and the Texas Department of Information Resources (implementing agencies), the participating insurers, and the vendor.
(c) When the participating insurers demonstrate a working test program for the event based process, the ongoing verification process, or both, to the satisfaction of the implementing agencies, the accepted test program will become an alternate means of compliance with the Financial Responsibility Verification Program to the extent it has been accepted for use by the implementing agencies to fulfill the event based process and/or ongoing verification process of the program.
(d) Insurers must comply with either the database system or the web services system until such date as the department and/or the other implementing agencies adopt rules detailing technical, performance, and user requirements for use with the accepted test program.
(e) Insurers are responsible for funding all equipment and technical resources necessary for the development, testing, and deployment of the test program and the accepted test program, except for those funds the implementing agencies have authorized the vendor to spend in connection with the test program.
(f) Sections 5.606, 5.607, and 5.608 of this subchapter (relating to Requirements for Insurers Using the Web Services Program, Web Services Program System Requirements, and Web Services Program Performance Requirements) shall not apply to the test program. This does not limit the insurers or the implementing agencies from requiring the same or similar technical, performance, and user requirements described in those sections as may be necessary to create a functioning system and obtain implementing agency approval.

Source Note: The provisions of this §5.611 adopted to be effective December 5, 2006, 31 TexReg 9730