Tex. Insurance Code § 885.051: FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETY DEFINED.

A corporation, society, order, or voluntary association is a fraternal benefit society if it:

(1) has a lodge system and a representative form of government or limits its membership to a secret fraternity that has a lodge system and a representative form of government;

(2) is organized and operated solely for the mutual benefit of its members and their beneficiaries and not for profit;

(3) does not have capital stock; and

(4) provides for the payment of benefits in accordance with Section 885.301.

Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1419, Sec. 1, eff. June 1, 2003.