Sec. 951.003. APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER. (a) This chapter does not apply to:

(1) the employment of counsel by an organization to represent its members free of direct financial charge to those members; or

(2) legal services made available incidental to a contract of insurance in which the insurer has contracted to pay all or a substantial part of a judgment, if any, and the legal services are free of direct financial charge to the insured.

(b) A law pertaining to legal service contracts under Chapter 953 or insurance does not apply to a program under this chapter.

Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999. Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1181, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.