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House Insurance Committee advances five bills, including changes to agent audits and insurance inquiries
Summary
The House Committee on Insurance passed five bills it had heard previously, approving updates to title agent audit access, response deadlines for insurance inquiries, licensing alignment, fee ceilings and third-party administrator rules; several bills were amended before passage.
The House Committee on Insurance on an earlier meeting day advanced five bills it had heard previously — House Bills 2042, 2043, 2048, 2049 and 2050 — taking final committee action to pass each measure out of committee.
The bills address a range of insurance regulatory topics: access to title-agent audit reports and surety bond levels (HB 2042); required response times to inquiries and complaints (HB 2043); a statutory cleanup and narrowing of reporting requirements (HB 2048); alignment of licensing and enforcement language for public adjusters and agents (HB 2049); and authority for the insurance commissioner to set fee amounts up to statutory ceilings and related appointment fee changes (HB 2050).
Committee members amended several measures before approving them. HB 2042 was amended to set an effective date of Jan. 1, 2026. HB 2043 and HB 2049 were amended to standardize certain response time language to 14…
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