SECTION 4.2714. Conditions

For each plan of insurance with separate rates for smokers and nonsmokers, an insurer may:

(1) use composite mortality tables to determine minimum reserve liabilities and minimum cash surrender values and amounts of paid-up nonforfeiture benefits or benefits under any extended term insurance provision;

(2) use smoker and nonsmoker mortality tables to determine the valuation net premiums and additional minimum reserves, if any, required by Insurance Code §425.068, concerning Reserve Computation: Gross Premium Charged Less Than Valuation Net Premium, and use composite mortality tables to determine the basic minimum reserves, minimum cash surrender values, and amounts of paid-up nonforfeiture benefits, or benefits under any extended term insurance provision; or

(3) use smoker and nonsmoker mortality tables to determine minimum reserve liabilities and minimum cash surrender values and amounts of paid-up nonforfeiture benefits, or benefits under any extended term insurance provision.

Source Note: The provisions of this §4.2714 adopted to be effective November 30, 1984, 9 TexReg 5919; amended to be effective May 11, 2022, 47 TexReg 2758; transferred effective September 1, 2023, as published in the July 28, 2023, issue of the Texas Register, 48 TexReg 4127; amended to be effective January 24, 2024, 49 TexReg 250