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Tex. Labor Code § 302.048 — TX Code / Code la / Chapter 302 / Section 302.048
§ 302.048. ASSESSMENT OF LOCAL WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD'S CAPACITY TO OVERSEE AND MANAGE LOCAL FUNDS AND DELIVERY OF SERVICES.
Status: in_force

(a) In consultation with local workforce development boards, the commission by rule shall establish criteria to be used by the commission to evaluate each local workforce development board's overall capacity to oversee and manage local funds and the delivery of local workforce services.

(b) The criteria established under Subsection (a) must address a local workforce development board's ability to:

(1) develop, maintain, and upgrade comprehensive fiscal management systems;

(2) hire, train, and retain qualified staff to carry out the board's oversight activities;

(3) select and oversee local contractors to improve the delivery of workforce services;

(4) oversee and improve the operations of local career development centers in the area served by the board;

(5) manage the contractors' performance across multiple board programs; and

(6) identify and resolve long-standing oversight problems of the board and performance problems of contract providers.

(c) Based on the criteria prescribed under this section, the commission shall develop performance measures to be used by the commission to evaluate each local workforce development board.

(d) The commission shall post the results of the commission's evaluation of each local workforce development board on the commission's Internet website in a format that is readily accessible to and understandable by a member of the public.

(e) The commission annually shall compile information provided to the commission by local workforce development boards that aggregates existing performance measure data on each local career development center in a consistent format demonstrating overall performance across multiple programs.

(f) The commission shall post the information compiled by the commission under Subsection (e) on the commission's Internet website in a format that is readily accessible to and understandable by a member of the public.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3916.008 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3916 / Section 3916.008
§ 3916.008. ELIGIBILITY FOR INCLUSION IN SPECIAL ZONES.
Status: in_force

All or any part of the area of the district is eligible to be included in one or more of the following:

(1) a tax increment reinvestment zone created under Chapter 311, Tax Code;

(2) a tax abatement reinvestment zone created under Chapter 312, Tax Code;

(3) an enterprise zone created under Chapter 2303, Government Code;

(4) a foreign trade zone created under Chapter 681, Business & Commerce Code; or

(5) an industrial district created under Chapter 42, Local Government Code.
Tex. Government Code § 82.0073 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 82 / Section 82.0073
§ 82.0073. SEPARATION OF RESPONSIBILITIES; DELEGATION.
Status: in_force

(a) The Board of Law Examiners shall develop and implement policies that clearly separate the policymaking responsibilities of the board and the management responsibilities of the executive director and the staff of the board.

(b) Subject to supreme court rules, the Board of Law Examiners may delegate routine decisions to the executive director of the board, including waiver requests.
Tex. Government Code § 129.007 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 129 / Section 129.007
§ 129.007. COURTESY SUPERVISION.
Status: in_force

(a) A public safety employees treatment court program that accepts placement of a defendant may transfer responsibility for supervising the defendant's participation in the program to another public safety employees treatment court program that is located in the county where the defendant works or resides. The defendant's supervision may be transferred under this section only with the consent of both public safety employees treatment court programs and the defendant.

(b) A defendant who consents to the transfer of the defendant's supervision must agree to abide by all rules, requirements, and instructions of the public safety employees treatment court program that accepts the transfer.

(c) If a defendant whose supervision is transferred under this section does not successfully complete the program, the public safety employees treatment court program supervising the defendant shall return the responsibility for the defendant's supervision to the public safety employees treatment court program that initiated the transfer.

(d) If a defendant is charged with an offense in a county that does not operate a public safety employees treatment court program, the court in which the criminal case is pending may place the defendant in a public safety employees treatment court program located in the county where the defendant works or resides, provided that a program is operated in that county and the defendant agrees to the placement. A defendant placed in a public safety employees treatment court program in accordance with this subsection must agree to abide by all rules, requirements, and instructions of the program.
Tex. Education Code § 76.07 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 76 / Section 76.07
§ 76.07. PARTNERSHIPS WITH JUNIOR COLLEGES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.
Status: in_force

(a) The institution shall seek to build and expand partnership agreements in the same manner as authorized by Subchapter N, Chapter 51. With the approval of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the institution may enter into a partnership agreement with a private institution of higher education located in the same county as any campus of the institution, subject to the same provisions as provided by Subchapter N, Chapter 51, for a partnership agreement between an institution covered by that section and a public junior college.

(b) In developing programs and courses subject to a partnership agreement, the institution and any other party to an agreement shall take into account the need in the service region to recruit minority and lower-income students into degree-granting programs of institutions of higher education.

(c) A nonresident student who is simultaneously enrolled in the institution and another public institution of higher education under a program offered jointly by the two institutions under a partnership agreement and who pays the fees and charges required of Texas residents at one of the institutions as provided by Section 54.213 because the student holds a competitive scholarship is entitled to pay the fees and charges required of Texas residents at each public institution of higher education in which the student is simultaneously enrolled under the program.

(d) The institution and other parties to a partnership agreement may contract with any person to provide shuttle bus service or other transportation service for or among the campuses of the institutions that are parties to the agreement and may charge and collect a fee from students registered in courses at the campuses of two or more of the institutions in the same semester or term in an amount determined by the institutions to pay for all or part of the costs of that service.
Tex. Family Code § 161.208 — TX Code / Code fa / Chapter 161 / Section 161.208
§ 161.208. APPOINTMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND PROTECTIVE SERVICES AS MANAGING CONSERVATOR.
Status: in_force

If a parent of the child has not been personally served in a suit in which the Department of Family and Protective Services seeks termination, the court that terminates a parent-child relationship may not appoint the Department of Family and Protective Services as permanent managing conservator of the child unless the court determines that:

(1) the department has made a diligent effort to locate a missing parent who has not been personally served and a relative of that parent; and

(2) a relative located by the department has had a reasonable opportunity to request appointment as managing conservator of the child or the department has not been able to locate the missing parent or a relative of the missing parent.
Tex. Government Code § 33.040 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 33 / Section 33.040
§ 33.040. ANNUAL REPORT.
Status: in_force

Not later than September 1 of each year, the commission shall prepare and submit to the legislature a report of:

(1) the total number of complaints the commission failed to finalize not later than the 270th day following the date the complaint was filed with the commission; and

(2) the total number of complaints included in Subdivision (1) that the commission declined to further investigate because of a law enforcement agency investigation.
Tex. Human Resources Code § 45.005 — TX Code / Code hr / Chapter 45 / Section 45.005
§ 45.005. SECONDARY SERVICES PROVIDERS AND REFERRALS.
Status: in_force

(a) A child welfare services provider may not be required to provide any service that conflicts with the provider's sincerely held religious beliefs.

(b) A governmental entity or any person that operates under governmental authority to refer or place children for child welfare services shall:

(1) ensure that a secondary child welfare services provider is available in that catchment area to provide a service described by Subsection (a) to a child; or

(2) if there is an insufficient number of secondary services providers willing or available in that catchment area to provide that service, provide for one or more secondary services providers in a nearby catchment area.

(c) A child welfare services provider who declines to provide a child welfare service as authorized by this section shall:

(1) provide to the person seeking the service written information directing the person to:

(A) the web page on the department's Internet website that includes a list of other licensed child welfare services providers; or

(B) other information sources that identify other licensed child welfare services providers who provide the service being denied;

(2) refer the applicant to another licensed child welfare services provider who provides the service being denied; or

(3) refer the applicant to the department or to a single source continuum contractor to identify and locate a licensed child welfare services provider who provides the service being denied.
Tex. Water Code § 152.057 — TX Code / Code wa / Chapter 152 / Section 152.057
§ 152.057. APPLICATION OF OTHER LAW TO RIVER AUTHORITY.
Status: in_force

Reference in any other law to a river authority that is engaged in the distribution and sale of electric energy to the public includes a river authority that has created a corporation under Section 152.051 that is engaged in the distribution and sale of electric energy to the public.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 387.008 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 387 / Section 387.008
§ 387.008. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH FUND.
Status: in_force

(a) The environmental research fund is an account in the general revenue fund. The fund consists of money from gifts, grants, or donations to the fund for designated or general use and from any other source designated by the legislature.

(b) Money in the environmental research fund may be used only by the commission for operations and projects under this chapter.

(c) Sections 403.095 and 404.071, Government Code, do not apply to the fund. Interest earned on the fund shall be credited to the fund.
Tex. Business & Commerce Code § 93.003 — TX Code / Code bc / Chapter 93 / Section 93.003
§ 93.003. RESTRICTIONS ON MERCHANT CONCERNING WAIVER.
Status: in_force

A merchant may not:

(1) sell a heavy equipment loss damage waiver unless:

(A) the contract containing the waiver complies with this chapter; and

(B) the customer agrees to the waiver in writing; or

(2) impose or require the purchase of a heavy equipment loss damage waiver as a condition of entering into a rental agreement.
Tex. Occupations Code § 1806.106 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 1806 / Section 1806.106
§ 1806.106. EXEMPTION FROM CONTINUING EDUCATION.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding Section 51.405 or any other provision of this chapter, a solar retailer may not be required to complete continuing education to renew the solar retailer's registration under this chapter.
Tex. Labor Code § 408.143 — TX Code / Code la / Chapter 408 / Section 408.143
§ 408.143. EMPLOYEE STATEMENT.
Status: in_force

(a) After the commissioner's initial determination of supplemental income benefits, the employee must file a statement with the insurance carrier stating:

(1) that the employee has earned less than 80 percent of the employee's average weekly wage as a direct result of the employee's impairment;

(2) the amount of wages the employee earned in the filing period provided by Subsection (b); and

(3) that the employee has complied with the requirements adopted under Section 408.1415.

(b) The statement required under this section must be filed quarterly on a form and in the manner provided by the commissioner. The commissioner may modify the filing period as appropriate to an individual case.

(c) Failure to file a statement under this section relieves the insurance carrier of liability for supplemental income benefits for the period during which a statement is not filed.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 9602.0201 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 9602 / Section 9602.0201
§ 9602.0201. GOVERNING BODY; TERMS; PRESIDING OFFICER.
Status: in_force

(a) The district is governed by a board of five directors appointed as follows:

(1) one director appointed by the city council of the City of Houston;

(2) two directors appointed by the director of the City of Houston Public Works;

(3) one director appointed by the governing body of the Harris County Flood Control District; and

(4) one director appointed by the mayor of the City of Houston.

(b) Directors serve staggered four-year terms.

(c) The director appointed under Subsection (a)(4) serves as the board's presiding officer.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1036.001 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1036 / Section 1036.001
§ 1036.001. DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

In this chapter:

(1) "Board" means the board of directors of the district.

(2) "Director" means a member of the board.

(3) "District" means the Hamilton County Hospital District.
Tex. Election Code § 1.020 — TX Code / Code el / Chapter 1 / Section 1.020
§ 1.020.
Status: in_force

Sec. 1.020. VOTING DISABILITY OR CANDIDACY DISQUALIFICATION: DETERMINATION OF MENTAL INCAPACITY. (a) A person determined to be totally mentally incapacitated by a court exercising probate jurisdiction is not subject to a voting disability or candidacy disqualification under this code if, subsequent to that determination, the person's mental capacity has been completely restored by a final judgment of a court exercising probate jurisdiction.

(b) A person determined to be partially mentally incapacitated without the right to vote by a court exercising probate jurisdiction is not subject to a voting disability or candidacy disqualification under this code if, subsequent to that determination, the person's guardianship has been modified to include the right to vote or the person's mental capacity has been completely restored by a final judgment of a court exercising probate jurisdiction.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7986.203 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7986 / Section 7986.203
§ 7986.203. BONDS FOR ROAD PROJECTS.
Status: in_force

At the time of issuance, the total principal amount of bonds or other obligations issued or incurred to finance road projects and payable from ad valorem taxes may not exceed one-fourth of the assessed value of the real property in the district.
Tex. Occupations Code § 2309.055 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 2309 / Section 2309.055
§ 2309.055. COMPENSATION; REIMBURSEMENT OF EXPENSES.
Status: in_force

Advisory board members may not receive compensation but are entitled to reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses incurred in performing the functions of the advisory board, subject to the General Appropriations Act.
Tex. Insurance Code § 443.203 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 443 / Section 443.203
§ 443.203. UNAUTHORIZED POST-PETITION TRANSFERS.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided by this section, the receiver may avoid any transfer of an interest of the insurer in property or any obligation incurred by the insurer that:

(1) was made or occurred after the petition for receivership was filed; and

(2) is not authorized by the receiver and approved by the receivership court or otherwise authorized in accordance with this chapter.

(b) Except to the extent that a transfer or obligation avoidable under Subsection (a) is otherwise voidable under this chapter, a transferee or obligee of a transfer or obligation avoided under Subsection (a) that takes for value and in good faith, at the option of the receivership court, has a lien or may retain any interest transferred or enforce any obligation incurred, as applicable, to the extent that the transferee or obligee gave value to the insurer in exchange for the transfer or obligation.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8014A.0102 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8014A / Section 8014A.0102
§ 8014A.0102. NATURE OF DISTRICT.
Status: in_force

The district is a municipal utility district created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 772.214 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 772 / Section 772.214
§ 772.214.
Status: in_force

Sec. 772.214. 9-1-1 EMERGENCY SERVICE FEE. (a) The board may impose a 9-1-1 emergency service fee on service users in the district.

(b) The fee may be imposed only on the base rate charge or its equivalent, excluding charges for coin-operated telephone equipment. The fee may not be imposed on more than 100 local exchange access lines or their equivalent for a single business entity at a single location, unless the lines are used by residents of the location. The fee may also not be imposed on any line that the Advisory Commission on State Emergency Communications excluded from the definition of a local exchange access line or an equivalent local exchange access line pursuant to Section 771.063. If a business service user provides residential facilities, each line that terminates at a residential unit and that is a communication link equivalent to a residential local exchange access line shall be charged the 9-1-1 emergency service fee. The fee must have uniform application and must be imposed in each participating jurisdiction.

(c) The rate of the fee may not exceed six percent of the monthly base rate charged a service user by the principal service supplier in the participating jurisdiction.

(d) The board shall set the amount of the fee each year as part of the annual budget. The board shall notify each service supplier of a change in the amount of the fee not later than the 91st day before the date the change takes effect.

(e) In imposing the fee, the board shall attempt to match the district's revenues to its operating expenditures and to provide reasonable reserves for contingencies and for the purchase and installation of 9-1-1 emergency service equipment. If the revenue received from the fee exceeds the amount of money needed to fund the district, the board by resolution shall reduce the rate of the fee to an amount adequate to fund the district or suspend the imposition of the fee. If the board suspends the imposition of the fee, the board by resolution may reinstitute the fee if money received by the district is not adequate to fund the district.

(f) In a public agency whose governing body at a later date votes to receive 9-1-1 service from the district, the fee is imposed beginning on the date the board approves making the public agency a participating jurisdiction. The fee authorized to be charged in a district applies to new territory added to the district when the territory becomes part of the district.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 712.0443 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 712 / Section 712.0443
§ 712.0443. CEASE AND DESIST ORDER.
Status: in_force

(a) The commissioner may issue an order to cease and desist to a person if:

(1) the commissioner finds by examination or other credible evidence that the person has violated a law of this state relating to perpetual care cemeteries, including a violation of this chapter, the commissioner's final order, or a Finance Commission of Texas rule; and

(2) the violation was not corrected by the 31st day after the date the person receives written notice of the violation from the department.

(b) An order proposed under this section shall be served on the person and must state the grounds for the proposed order with reasonable certainty and the proposed effective date, which may not be less than the 20th day after the date the order is mailed or delivered. The order becomes effective on the proposed date unless the person requests a hearing not later than the 19th day after the date the order is mailed or delivered. If the person requests a hearing, the hearing shall be conducted in accordance with the procedures for a contested case hearing under Chapter 2001, Government Code.

(c) If a cease and desist order issued under this section names an officer, director, or employee of a perpetual care cemetery, the order may require the person named in the order to take corrective action to remedy the violation described by the order.
Tex. Business & Commerce Code § 8.114 — TX Code / Code bc / Chapter 8 / Section 8.114
§ 8.114. EVIDENTIARY RULES CONCERNING CERTIFICATED SECURITIES.
Status: in_force

The following rules apply in an action on a certificated security against the issuer:

(1) Unless specifically denied in the pleadings, each signature on a security certificate or in a necessary indorsement is admitted.

(2) If the effectiveness of a signature is put in issue, the burden of establishing effectiveness is on the party claiming under the signature, but the signature is presumed to be genuine or authorized.

(3) If signatures on a security certificate are admitted or established, production of the certificate entitles a holder to recover on it unless the defendant establishes a defense or a defect going to the validity of the security.

(4) If it is shown that a defense or defect exists, the plaintiff has the burden of establishing that the plaintiff, or some person under whom the plaintiff claims, is a person against whom the defense or defect cannot be asserted.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 9020.005 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 9020 / Section 9020.005
§ 9020.005. APPLICABILITY OF OTHER WATER CONTROL AND IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT LAW.
Status: in_force

Except as provided by this chapter, general laws pertaining to water control and improvement districts govern the authority.