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Tex. Government Code § 493.0084 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 493 / Section 493.0084
§ 493.0084. INVENTORY AND EVALUATION OF ACTIVE PROGRAMS.
Status: in_force

(a) The department shall develop and maintain a comprehensive inventory of active programs and activities offered in department facilities that includes the following information for each program:

(1) program goals;

(2) program capacity; and

(3) facilities where the program is offered.

(b) The department shall make the inventory available to the public on the department's Internet website and continuously update the inventory.

(c) The department shall collect and analyze data for the programs described by Subsection (a) to provide oversight of the programs and to improve program offerings.

(d) In carrying out the department's duties under Subsection (c), the department shall:

(1) for programs claiming rehabilitative or reentry effects:

(A) collect results-based performance data;

(B) work with qualified internal or external researchers to develop criteria to evaluate the programs; and

(C) use the criteria developed under Paragraph (B) to evaluate the programs, including the data described by Paragraph (A);

(2) create a separate correctional elective programs and activities category for non-evidence-based and non-evidence-informed programs and develop criteria to evaluate the programs;

(3) collect and analyze relevant data for program participants in programs claiming rehabilitative or reentry effects, such as:

(A) institutional disciplinary violations;

(B) subsequent arrests;

(C) subsequent convictions or confinements;

(D) employment obtained following release; and

(E) cost of confinement; and

(4) use the data described by Subdivision (3) to produce and compare recidivism rates and other correctional impact trends and to make changes to the programs as needed.

(e) The department may make structural or programmatic adjustments to improve program performance in response to a program evaluation under this section indicating poor program performance.

(f) Not later than December 1 of each even-numbered year, the department shall submit a report on the department's analysis of programs described by Subsection (a) to the board, the Board of Pardons and Paroles, the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and each standing committee of the legislature with primary jurisdiction over the department.

(g) The department may enter into a memorandum of understanding with other entities, including the Texas Workforce Commission, the Office of Court Administration of the Texas Judicial System, the Department of Public Safety, the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, other regulatory entities, and institutions of higher education, to obtain and share data necessary to evaluate programs under this section.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 298E.053 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 298E / Section 298E.053
§ 298E.053. INSTITUTIONAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDER REPORTING.
Status: in_force

If the board of a district authorizes the district to participate in a program under this chapter, the board shall require each institutional health care provider located in the district to submit to the district a copy of any financial and utilization data required by and reported to the Department of State Health Services under Sections 311.032 and 311.033 and any rules adopted by the executive commissioner of the Health and Human Services Commission to implement those sections.
Tex. Finance Code § 96.309 — TX Code / Code fi / Chapter 96 / Section 96.309
§ 96.309. PAYMENT OF FINAL DIVIDEND.
Status: in_force

(a) The liquidating agent may not pay a final dividend before the first day of the 19th month after the date notice is first published under Section 96.304.

(b) The liquidating agent shall declare and pay a final dividend after:

(1) the prohibitory period prescribed by Subsection (a) expires; and

(2) the liquidating agent liquidates each asset of the savings bank capable of being liquidated or receives sufficient money from the liquidation to:

(A) pay the costs of liquidation;

(B) pay all claims that have been presented and approved; and

(C) leave money available to pay all nonclaiming deposit account holders and creditors of the savings bank.
Tex. Election Code § 63.0111 — TX Code / Code el / Chapter 63 / Section 63.0111
§ 63.0111. OFFENSES RELATED TO PROVISIONAL VOTING.
Status: in_force

(a) An election judge commits an offense if the judge knowingly provides a voter with a form for an affidavit required by Section 63.001 if the form contains information that the judge entered on the form knowing it was false.

(b) An offense under this section is a state jail felony.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 841.209 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 841 / Section 841.209
§ 841.209. EXPIRATION OF ORDER.
Status: in_force

An order issued under Section 841.205 expires on the first anniversary of the date the order was issued.
Tex. Education Code § 37.308 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 37 / Section 37.308
§ 37.308. TRANSFER OF REGISTERED SEX OFFENDER.
Status: in_force

Except as provided by Section 37.304(b), a school district shall determine whether to place a student to whom this subchapter applies and who transfers to the district in the appropriate alternative education program as provided by Section 37.309 or in a regular classroom. The school district shall follow the procedures specified under Section 37.306 in making the determination.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 142.006 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 142 / Section 142.006
§ 142.006. LICENSE ISSUANCE; TERM.
Status: repealed

(a) The department shall issue a home and community support services agency license to provide home health, hospice, habilitation, or personal assistance services for each place of business to an applicant if:

(1) the applicant:

(A) qualifies for the license to provide the type of service that is to be offered by the applicant;

(B) submits an application and license fee as required by this chapter; and

(C) complies with all applicable licensing standards required or adopted under this chapter; and

(2) any controlling person with respect to the applicant complies with all applicable licensing standards required or adopted under this chapter.

(b) A license issued under this chapter expires three years after the date of issuance. The executive commissioner by rule may adopt a system under which licenses expire on various dates during the three-year period. For the year in which a license expiration date is changed, the commission shall prorate the license fee on a monthly basis. Each license holder shall pay only that portion of the license fee allocable to the number of months for which the license is valid. A license holder shall pay the total license renewal fee at the time of renewal. The commission may issue an initial license for a shorter term to conform expiration dates for a locality or an applicant. The commission may issue a temporary license to an applicant for an initial license.

(c) The department may find that a home and community support services agency has satisfied the requirements for licensing if the agency is accredited by an accreditation organization, such as The Joint Commission or the Community Health Accreditation Program, and the department finds that the accreditation organization has standards that meet or exceed the requirements for licensing under this chapter. A license fee is required of the home and community support services agency at the time of a license application.

(d) to (f) Repealed by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 198, Sec. 2.156(a)(1).

(g) The license must designate the types of services that the home and community support services agency is authorized to provide at or from the designated place of business. The types of services that may be designated include dialysis and habilitation.
Tex. Government Code § 443.021 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 443 / Section 443.021
§ 443.021. STATE HISTORY MUSEUM.
Status: in_force

The board is authorized to develop, construct, govern, and operate, from funds appropriated for that purpose, a state history museum to be located within the Capitol complex. In this section, "Capitol complex" has the meaning assigned by Section 443.0071.
Tex. Occupations Code § 205.104 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 205 / Section 205.104
§ 205.104. RULES RESTRICTING ADVERTISING OR COMPETITIVE BIDDING.
Status: in_force

(a) The medical board may not adopt rules under this chapter restricting advertising or competitive bidding by a license holder except to prohibit false, misleading, or deceptive practices.

(b) In its rules to prohibit false, misleading, or deceptive practices, the medical board may not include a rule that:

(1) restricts the use of any medium for advertising;

(2) restricts the use of a license holder's personal appearance or voice in an advertisement;

(3) relates to the size or duration of an advertisement by the license holder; or

(4) restricts the license holder's advertisement under a trade name.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1029.055 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1029 / Section 1029.055
§ 1029.055. EMPLOYEES.
Status: in_force

The board may employ a general manager, attorneys, financial advisors, bookkeepers, and architects.
Tex. Local Government Code § 303.104 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 303 / Section 303.104
§ 303.104. EXTENSION OF DURATION.
Status: in_force

If a corporation is dissolved by expiration of its duration, the corporation may amend its articles of incorporation to extend its duration before the third anniversary of the date of dissolution.
Tex. Transportation Code § 256.108 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 256 / Section 256.108
§ 256.108. PERIOD FOR SPENDING GRANT.
Status: in_force

A grant awarded under this subchapter must be spent not later than the fifth anniversary of the date of the award.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 61.012 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 61 / Section 61.012
§ 61.012. REIMBURSEMENT FOR SERVICES.
Status: in_force

(a) In this section, "sponsored alien" means a person who has been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence under the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. Section 1101 et seq.) and who, as a condition of admission, was sponsored by a person who executed an affidavit of support on behalf of the person.

(b) A public hospital or hospital district that provides health care services to a sponsored alien under this chapter may recover from a person who executed an affidavit of support on behalf of the alien the costs of the health care services provided to the alien.

(c) A public hospital or hospital district described by Subsection (b) must notify a sponsored alien and a person who executed an affidavit of support on behalf of the alien, at the time the alien applies for health care services, that a person who executed an affidavit of support on behalf of a sponsored alien is liable for the cost of health care services provided to the alien.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 252.093 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 252 / Section 252.093
§ 252.093. INVOLUNTARY APPOINTMENT.
Status: in_force

(a) The department may request the attorney general to bring an action on behalf of the state for the appointment of a trustee to operate a facility if:

(1) the facility is operating without a license;

(2) the department has suspended or revoked the facility's license;

(3) license suspension or revocation procedures against the facility are pending and the department determines that an imminent threat to the health and safety of the residents exists;

(4) the department determines that an emergency exists that presents an immediate threat to the health and safety of the residents; or

(5) the facility is closing and arrangements for relocation of the residents to other licensed facilities have not been made before closure.

(b) A trustee appointed under Subsection (a)(5) may only ensure an orderly and safe relocation of the facility's residents as quickly as possible.

(c) After a hearing, a court shall appoint a trustee to take charge of a facility if the court finds that involuntary appointment of a trustee is necessary.

(d) If possible, the court shall appoint as trustee an individual whose background includes intellectual disability service administration.

(e) An action under this section must be brought in Travis County or the county in which the violation is alleged to have occurred.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 574.101 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 574 / Section 574.101
§ 574.101. DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

In this subchapter:

(1) "Capacity" means a patient's ability to:

(A) understand the nature and consequences of a proposed treatment, including the benefits, risks, and alternatives to the proposed treatment; and

(B) make a decision whether to undergo the proposed treatment.

(2) "Medication-related emergency" means a situation in which it is immediately necessary to administer medication to a patient to prevent:

(A) imminent probable death or substantial bodily harm to the patient because the patient:

(i) overtly or continually is threatening or attempting to commit suicide or serious bodily harm; or

(ii) is behaving in a manner that indicates that the patient is unable to satisfy the patient's need for nourishment, essential medical care, or self-protection; or

(B) imminent physical or emotional harm to another because of threats, attempts, or other acts the patient overtly or continually makes or commits.

(3) "Psychoactive medication" means a medication prescribed for the treatment of symptoms of psychosis or other severe mental or emotional disorders and that is used to exercise an effect on the central nervous system to influence and modify behavior, cognition, or affective state when treating the symptoms of mental illness. "Psychoactive medication" includes the following categories when used as described in this subdivision:

(A) antipsychotics or neuroleptics;

(B) antidepressants;

(C) agents for control of mania or depression;

(D) antianxiety agents;

(E) sedatives, hypnotics, or other sleep-promoting drugs; and

(F) psychomotor stimulants.
Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 18A.351 — TX Code / Code cr / Chapter 18A / Section 18A.351
§ 18A.351. DISCLOSURE OR USE OF INTERCEPTED COMMUNICATIONS.
Status: in_force

An investigative or law enforcement officer who, by means authorized by this chapter, obtains knowledge of the contents of a wire, oral, or electronic communication or evidence derived from the communication may:

(1) use the contents or evidence to the extent the use is appropriate to the proper performance of the officer's official duties; or

(2) disclose the contents or evidence to another investigative or law enforcement officer, including a law enforcement officer or agent of the United States or of another state, to the extent that the disclosure is appropriate to the proper performance of the official duties of the officer making or receiving the disclosure.
Tex. Government Code § 434.015 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 434 / Section 434.015
§ 434.015. INFORMATION OF PUBLIC INTEREST.
Status: in_force

The commission shall prepare information of public interest describing the functions of the commission and the procedures for filing and for resolution by the commission of public complaints. The commission shall make the information available to the general public and appropriate state agencies.
Tex. Transportation Code § 441.233 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 441 / Section 441.233
§ 441.233. TRANSFER OF DISTRICT MONEY.
Status: in_force

(a) On dissolution of the district, the board shall transfer the district's money to the governmental entity to which the road facility was conveyed. If road facilities were conveyed to more than one governmental entity, the board shall distribute the money among those governmental entities in proportion to the proceeds of all indebtedness that the district incurred to construct, purchase, or improve the road facilities conveyed to each respective governmental entity.

(b) A governmental entity shall use the money to maintain the road facility.
Tex. Business Organizations Code § 21.759 — TX Code / Code bo / Chapter 21 / Section 21.759
§ 21.759. RIGHTS AND POWERS OF PROVISIONAL DIRECTOR.
Status: in_force

A provisional director has all the rights and powers of an elected director of the close corporation, or the rights of vote or consent of a shareholder and other rights and powers of shareholders or other persons who have been empowered to manage the business and affairs of the close corporation under a shareholders' agreement with the voting power provided by court order, including the right to notice of, and to vote at, meetings of directors or shareholders.
Tex. Agriculture Code § 43.014 — TX Code / Code ag / Chapter 43 / Section 43.014
§ 43.014. PUBLIC INSPECTION AND INFORMATION.
Status: in_force

(a) The director shall at all reasonable times keep the experiment station open to public inspection.

(b) The director shall disseminate information to the public explaining the manner and methods of preparation, soil culture, cultivation, gathering, preservation, and marketing the products of the experiment station.
Tex. Finance Code § 275.101 — TX Code / Code fi / Chapter 275 / Section 275.101
§ 275.101. DIRECTORS.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a mutual trust investment company must have at least five directors, each of whom is not required to be a stockholder but must be an officer or director of a bank or trust company that is located in this state.

(b) An officer or director of a bank or trust company not located in this state may serve as a director of a mutual trust investment company only if that officer's or director's bank or trust company owns stock in a fiduciary capacity in the mutual trust investment company.
Tex. Occupations Code § 702.304 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 702 / Section 702.304
§ 702.304. CANCELLATION AND REFUND NOTICE.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a contract must state in at least 10-point type that is boldfaced, capitalized, underlined, or otherwise conspicuously distinguished from surrounding written material:

(1) "NOTICE TO PURCHASER: DO NOT SIGN THIS CONTRACT UNTIL YOU READ IT OR IF IT CONTAINS BLANK SPACES."

(2) "IF YOU DECIDE YOU DO NOT WISH TO REMAIN A MEMBER OF THIS HEALTH SPA, YOU MAY CANCEL THIS CONTRACT BY MAILING TO THE HEALTH SPA BY MIDNIGHT OF THE THIRD BUSINESS DAY AFTER THE DAY YOU SIGN THIS CONTRACT A NOTICE STATING YOUR DESIRE TO CANCEL THIS CONTRACT. THE WRITTEN NOTICE MUST BE MAILED BY CERTIFIED MAIL TO THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS:

(3) "IF THE HEALTH SPA GOES OUT OF BUSINESS AND DOES NOT PROVIDE FACILITIES WITHIN 10 MILES OF THE FACILITY IN WHICH YOU ARE ENROLLED OR IF THE HEALTH SPA MOVES MORE THAN 10 MILES FROM THE FACILITY IN WHICH YOU ARE ENROLLED, YOU MAY:

(A) CANCEL THIS CONTRACT BY MAILING BY CERTIFIED MAIL A WRITTEN NOTICE STATING YOUR DESIRE TO CANCEL THIS CONTRACT, ACCOMPANIED BY PROOF OF PAYMENT ON THE CONTRACT TO THE HEALTH SPA AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS:

(B) FILE A CLAIM FOR A REFUND OF YOUR UNUSED MEMBERSHIP FEES AGAINST THE BOND OR OTHER SECURITY POSTED BY THE HEALTH SPA WITH THE TEXAS SECRETARY OF STATE. TO MAKE A CLAIM AGAINST THE SECURITY PROVIDE A COPY OF YOUR CONTRACT TOGETHER WITH PROOF OF PAYMENTS MADE ON THE CONTRACT TO THE TEXAS SECRETARY OF STATE. THE REQUIRED CLAIM INFORMATION MUST BE RECEIVED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE NOT LATER THAN THE 90TH DAY AFTER THE DATE NOTICE OF THE CLOSURE OR RELOCATION IS FIRST POSTED ON THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S INTERNET WEBSITE."

(4) "IF YOU DIE OR BECOME TOTALLY AND PERMANENTLY DISABLED AFTER THE DATE THIS CONTRACT TAKES EFFECT, YOU OR YOUR ESTATE MAY CANCEL THIS CONTRACT AND RECEIVE A PARTIAL REFUND OF YOUR UNUSED MEMBERSHIP FEE BY MAILING A NOTICE TO THE HEALTH SPA STATING YOUR DESIRE TO CANCEL THIS CONTRACT. THE HEALTH SPA MAY REQUIRE PROOF OF DISABILITY OR DEATH. THE WRITTEN NOTICE MUST BE MAILED BY CERTIFIED MAIL TO THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS:

(Address of the health spa home office)."

(b) A health spa operator is required to include the statement under Subsection (a)(3)(B) in a contract only if the operator is required to post security with the secretary of state under Subchapter D.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 437.01953 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 437 / Section 437.01953
§ 437.01953. REQUIREMENTS FOR SALE OF CERTAIN FOOD.
Status: in_force

(a) A cottage food production operation that sells to consumers a time and temperature control for safety food shall:

(1) register with the department in the form and manner prescribed by the department;

(2) store and deliver the food at the air temperature necessary to prevent the growth of bacteria that may cause human illness; and

(3) label the food in accordance with Section 437.0193.

(b) The executive commissioner may adopt rules to implement this section.
Tex. Government Code § 511.015 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 511 / Section 511.015
§ 511.015. ANNUAL REPORTS.
Status: repealed

(a) Before February 1 of each year the commission shall submit to the governor and the presiding officer of each house of the legislature a report on its operations, its findings concerning county jails during the preceding year, and recommendations that it considers appropriate.

(b) Repealed by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1083, Sec. 25(50), eff. June 17, 2011.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 31.011 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 31 / Section 31.011
§ 31.011. RECOVERY OF COSTS.
Status: in_force

(a) The department may recover the cost of services provided under this chapter from a person who does not reimburse the department as required by Section 31.010 or from any third party who has a legal obligation to pay other benefits and to whom notice of the department's interest has been given.

(b) At the request of the commissioner, the attorney general may bring suit in the appropriate court of Travis County on behalf of the department.

(c) In a judgment in favor of the department, the court may award attorney's fees, court costs, and interest accruing from the date on which the department provides the services to the date on which the department is reimbursed.
Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 12 — TX Code / Code cr / Chapter 49 / Section 12
§ 12. TRANSFER OF DUTIES OF JUSTICE OF PEACE.
Status: in_force

When the commissioners court of any county shall establish the office of medical examiner, all powers and duties of justices of the peace in such county relating to the investigation of deaths and inquests shall vest in the office of the medical examiner. Any subsequent General Law pertaining to the duties of justices of the peace in death investigations and inquests shall apply to the medical examiner in such counties as to the extent not inconsistent with this Article, and all laws or parts of laws otherwise in conflict herewith are hereby declared to be inapplicable to this Article.
Tex. Government Code § 469.203 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 469 / Section 469.203
§ 469.203. APPLICATION AND ELIGIBILITY.
Status: in_force

(a) An applicant for a certificate of registration must file with the commission an application on a form prescribed by the executive director.

(b) To be eligible for a certificate of registration, an applicant must satisfy any requirements adopted by the commission by rule, including education and examination requirements.

(c) The executive director may recognize, prepare, or administer educational courses required for obtaining a certificate of registration.
Tex. Agriculture Code § 143.103 — TX Code / Code ag / Chapter 143 / Section 143.103
§ 143.103. IMMUNITY FROM LIABILITY.
Status: in_force

A person whose vehicle strikes, kills, injures, or damages an unattended animal running at large on a highway is not liable for damages to the animal except as a finding of:

(1) gross negligence in the operation of the vehicle; or

(2) wilful intent to strike, kill, injure, or damage the animal.