Recently, the Texas Department of Insurance hosted a webinar on the new Agent Licensing Rules that will go into effect 9/1/21 as a result of legislative changes. These reflect a multitude of changes for many types of licensures including Health – required reading for all TAHU members. They recorded the webinar and it is available on their site along with a Q&A section and many other helpful resources. You can find those here:
https://www.tdi.texas.gov/agent/index.html
Click HERE For a high level executive summary.
Meroney Public Affairs will be including a discussion on these rules as we get around to Chapters to deliver our newest legislative update CE.
Now into the last week of the special legislative session, the partisan standoff over Texas Republicans’ priority elections bill is no closer to a resolution in Austin. Enough House Democrats to prevent a quorum — two-thirds (100 of the 150) of House members must be together to conduct official business — are still camped out in the nation’s capital, and Republicans are still waiting for them back in Austin, toiling through the daily monotony.
The few glimmers of hope for negotiation seem to be long gone, and neither side appears to be in the mood for dialogue. Republicans believe they have already compromised plenty on the legislation, while Democrats are distrustful of both the policy driving the legislation and their GOP colleagues after seeing how they managed the process around the bill, especially at the end of the regular session in May.
Gov. Greg Abbott has vowed to call special session after special session until the elections bill passes, and he has said the next one will begin the day after this one ends; a special session can end early, but can’t go longer than 30 days, and Friday is the 30th day.
Other than the elections bill, there has been little progress made toward restoring legislative funding that Abbott vetoed in retaliation for the Democrats’ initial walkout over the bill. The clock is ticking — the funding was set to begin on September 1st. That issue could be resolved at the Texas Supreme Court, after a group that includes House Democrats and legislative staffers asked the court to override Abbott’s veto.
Source: TAHU.org