As Special Session Winds Down, TWIA Fight Continues
Calling it "absolutely" must-pass legislation, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst said this afternoon he is working with senators to hammer out a bill to reform the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association. His optimistic pronouncement came after a Senate panel earlier in the day was unable to muster the votes to approve the bill — one of the key reasons lawmakers are in special session.
"I think we're going to reach consensus," Dewhurst said.
State Sen. John Carona, R-Dallas, didn't get enough support in the Senate Business and Commerce Committee this morning to pass out the TWIA bill. In fact, it appeared ...
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Scarlett Morgan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Senator Lucio is such a blessing to Brownsville, and the rest of our state too.
Mary Lynn VanZandt Neill via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Don't know about you,but I'll feel so much better,sleep sounder,and marry my Prince this weekend.
Rudy Gonzales
Abolishing the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association(TWIA) is not the answer! This pseudo-state insurance association, formed by the state of Texas was formed to protect the coastal home owners. It was not formed to enrich the administrators or directors, the insurance adjusters or TWIA itself. The Senators and Representatives from the coastal area should have maintained oversight to guarantee correct and valid fund usage and utilization. If Senators and Representatives were complicit in collusion, corruption and or kick backs from any disreputable insurance adjusters as was reported, then they should go! the inference that homeowners should get the shaft at the expense of legislators, TWIA or administrators and legal litigation limited for home owners is tantamount double-jeopardy. Someone should be held accountable, someone other than the homeowner. Further limitations of the actual costs of repairs to homes should not be limited to the point of revenue enhancement for TWIA, administrators or other adjunct entity. Additionally inhibitory restrictions on legal ramifications should not be considered since that would limit the correction of gross errors on behalf of TWIA, administrators or Repair contractors. Larry Taylor of Friendswood, Texas had the audacity to say no heads should roll over TWIA and the corruption and collusion in TWIA. He was wrong! He happens to be one of the representatives from Galveston County. If he was derelict in containing the misdeeds of TWIA and or the administrators or the Inspectors, or in-placing controls to keep from paying out bribes, then he also is culpable. This pseudo-state insurance association was created for the protection of the citizens of the Texas coast, and not for the lining of Texas legislators in Austin. The Legislature has been derelict in passing the budget, school funding and jobs while passing Sonogram legislation intruding into Texans bedrooms.