Filing Format Requirements

(a) Documents included in filings may not be encrypted or password protected. TDI staff must be able to fully process and review the documents without a password or other decryption process.

(b) The policy forms, endorsements, and form usage tables submitted in a filing under Division 5 of this subchapter (relating to Filings Made Easy - Requirements for Property and Casualty Policy Form and Endorsement Filings) must:

(1) not be scanned documents;

(2) not include any scanned text, or scanned images with text, that will be part of the insurance contract;

(3) be in a format that is selectable and searchable; and

(4) be in portrait, not landscape, orientation.

Source Note: The provisions of this §5.9313 adopted to be effective January 8, 2024, 49 TexReg 41.