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Best practices, strong consumer protection, modernization, user-friendly processes, clear communication – these are the goals of improvements happening across every program at the Texas Department of Insurance. As part of that focus, Insurance Commissioner Kent Sullivan will be issuing a call later this year to identify specific agency rules that need to be updated or changed. “We want people to comply with the law,” Sullivan said. “To facilitate that, you have to make sure your rules and processes are user-friendly. We’ll be asking interested stakeholders to identify any rules that make compliance unreasonably difficult or that they find to be ambiguous, out of date, or inconsistent with statute.” TDI staff are working on a structured process and timeline to collect, review, and prioritize suggestions about specific rules that need to be modernized or changed. Details about the process will be provided later this year. “We want to announce this now so our stakeholders have plenty of time to think through their suggestions,” Sullivan said. “It will be most helpful when interested parties can tell us exactly what issue or confusion the current language causes and have proposals on how we can change it. That information also will help us determine which rules need to be updated and how to prioritize those projects.” To get a notice when the agency announces more information about the open suggestion period, sign up to get email notices from TDIand subscribe to the News category. Source: https://www.tdi.texas.gov/news/2019/tdi04022019.html
Best practices, strong consumer protection, modernization, user-friendly processes, clear communication – these are the goals of improvements happening across every program at the Texas Department of Insurance. As part of that focus, Insurance Commissioner Kent Sullivan will be issuing a call later this year to identify specific agency rules that need to be updated or changed.
TDI staff are working on a structured process and timeline to collect, review, and prioritize suggestions about specific rules that need to be modernized or changed. Details about the process will be provided later this year.
“We want to announce this now so our stakeholders have plenty of time to think through their suggestions,” Sullivan said. “It will be most helpful when interested parties can tell us exactly what issue or confusion the current language causes and have proposals on how we can change it. That information also will help us determine which rules need to be updated and how to prioritize those projects.”