Tex. Finance Code § 155.002: DEPOSIT REQUIRED.

(a) Each person doing business in this state as a bond investment company shall deposit with the comptroller, in cash or securities approved by the comptroller, an amount equal to $5,000.

(b) In addition to the deposit required by Subsection (a), a person doing business in this state as a bond investment company shall deposit semiannually with the comptroller, in cash or securities approved by the comptroller, an amount equal to 10 percent of all net premiums received by the company until the amount deposited equals $100,000.

Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1008, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.