The office:

1. (1) may assess the impact of insurance rates, rules, and forms on insurance consumers in this state; and
2. (2) shall advocate in the office's own name positions determined by the public counsel to be most advantageous to a substantial number of insurance consumers.

Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 2, eff. April 1, 2005.