Tex. Insurance Code § 424.105: SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT POOL: CERTAIN SHORT-TERM OBLIGATIONS.

(a) Obligations contained in a short-term investment pool must meet the requirements of this section.

(b) The obligations must:

(1) have a rating by the securities valuation office of one or two, or an equivalent rating issued by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization recognized by the securities valuation office; or

(2) be issued by an issuer with outstanding obligations that have a rating described by Subdivision (1).

(c) The obligations must have:

(1) a remaining maturity of 397 days or less or a put that:

(A) entitles the holder to receive the principal amount of the obligation; and

(B) may be exercised through maturity at specified intervals not exceeding 397 days; or

(2) a remaining maturity of three years or less and a floating interest rate that resets at least quarterly on the basis of a current short-term index and is not subject to a maximum limit, if the obligations do not have an interest rate that varies inversely to market interest rate changes.

(d) For purposes of this section, a current short-term index is:

(1) a federal funds rate;

(2) the prime rate;

(3) the rate for treasury bills;

(4) the London InterBank Offered Rate; or

(5) the rate for commercial paper.

Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 727 (H.B. 2017), Sec. 1, eff. April 1, 2007.