Insurance Code § 4055.013

Sec. 4055.013. ASSIGNMENT AND TRANSFER OF COMPENSATION BY CERTAIN AGENTS. A person who is licensed as a general life, accident, and health agent, life insurance agent, general property and casualty agent, or personal lines property and casualty agent or who holds a substantially equivalent license under this code, as determined by the commissioner, and who enters into a contract with an insurer to act as the insurer's agent in soliciting or writing policies or certificates of insurance that are subject to this chapter may assign and transfer to the agent's employer any commission, fee, or other compensation to be paid to the agent under the agent's contract with the insurer only if the sale of the insurance product occurs within the scope of the agent's employment. Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 7, eff. April 1, 2005. Amended by: Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 548 (S.B. 1263), Sec. 2.29, eff. September 1, 2007.