1. (a) The sections of this subchapter, as amended and adopted by the commissioner, shall be effective 20 days from the date they are filed with the Office of the Secretary of State and shall be applicable to all individual accident and sickness insurance policies and subscriber contracts of hospital and medical and dental service associations delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on and after such date.

2. (b) In regards to policies issued before the effective date of these rules and deemed continuous and not annually renewed pursuant to the Insurance Code, Article 3.70-13:

   1. (1) Such policies shall be considered "renewed" for the purposes of complying with the mandatory guaranteed renewability provisions of this subchapter, if applicable to the coverage offered in such policies, as set forth in §3.3020 of this title (relating to Policy Definition of Guaranteed Renewable and Limited Guarantee of Renewability) and §3.3038 of this title (relating to Mandatory Guaranteed Renewability Provisions for Individual Hospital, Medical or Surgical Coverage; Exceptions), on the first policy anniversary date after the effective date of this subchapter.
   2. (2) Such policies shall not be subject to any other provisions of this subchapter, unless the statutory period of continuity prescribed by Article 3.70-13 ends, and the policy is then renewed. During such period of continuity, the policies will continue to be subject to applicable rules as they existed prior to the effective date of this subchapter.

Source Note:The provisions of this §3.3110 adopted to be effective January 26, 1977, 2 TexReg 159; amended to be effective January 2, 1978, 2 TexReg 4943; amended to be effective December 22, 1997, 22 TexReg 12503.