Texas Insurance Code - INS § 425.223. Authorized investments for Capital, surplus, and contingency funds:  capital Stock of Reinsurer

(a) Subject to Subsection (b), an insurer may invest the insurer's capital, surplus, and contingency funds in not more than 20 percent of the capital stock of any other insurance company organized under Chapter 841 whose principal business is the reinsurance, either wholly or partly, of risks ceded to that insurer by other life insurance companies.

(b) The aggregate amount of an insurer's investments under this section may not exceed 10 percent of the insurer's capital, surplus, and contingency funds.

(c) The investment authorized by this section may be made by purchase of stock issued and outstanding or by subscription to and payment for the increase in the capital stock of the reinsurer.