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Tex. Insurance Code § 6001.251 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 6001 / Section 6001.251
§ 6001.251. PROHIBITED PRACTICES.
Status: in_force

(a) An individual or firm may not:

(1) engage in the business of installing or servicing portable fire extinguishers without holding a registration certificate;

(2) engage in the business of planning, certifying, installing, or servicing fixed fire extinguisher systems without holding a registration certificate;

(3) install, service, or certify the servicing of portable fire extinguishers or plan, certify, service, or install fixed fire extinguisher systems without holding a license;

(4) perform hydrostatic testing of fire extinguisher cylinders manufactured in accordance with the specifications and requirements of the United States Department of Transportation without holding a hydrostatic testing registration certificate;

(5) obtain or attempt to obtain a registration certificate or license by fraudulent representation;

(6) install or service portable fire extinguishers or plan, certify, service, or install fixed fire extinguisher systems in violation of this chapter or the rules adopted and administered under this chapter;

(7) except as provided by Subsection (b), install, service, or hydrostatically test a fire extinguisher that does not have the proper identifying labels;

(8) sell, install, service, or recharge a carbon tetrachloride fire extinguisher; or

(9) except as provided by Subsection (b), lease, sell, service, or install a portable fire extinguisher, a fixed fire extinguisher system, or extinguisher equipment unless it carries an approval label or listing label issued by a testing laboratory approved by the department.

(b) The commissioner by rule shall permit an individual or firm to service a portable fire extinguisher regardless of whether the extinguisher carries a label described by Subsection (a).
Tex. Family Code § 264.602 — TX Code / Code fa / Chapter 264 / Section 264.602
§ 264.602. CONTRACTS WITH ADVOCATE PROGRAMS.
Status: in_force

(a) The statewide organization with which the commission contracts under Section 264.603 shall contract for services with eligible volunteer advocate programs to provide advocacy services to abused or neglected children.

(b) The contract under this section may not result in reducing the financial support a volunteer advocate program receives from another source.

(c) The commission shall develop a scale of state financial support for volunteer advocate programs that declines over a six-year period beginning on the date each individual contract takes effect. After the end of the six-year period, the commission may not provide more than 50 percent of the volunteer advocate program's funding.

(d) The executive commissioner by rule shall adopt standards for a local volunteer advocate program. The statewide organization shall assist the executive commissioner in developing the standards.

(e) The department, in cooperation with the statewide organization with which the commission contracts under Section 264.603 and other interested agencies, shall support the expansion of court-appointed volunteer advocate programs into counties in which there is a need for the programs. In expanding into a county, a program shall work to ensure the independence of the program, to the extent possible, by establishing community support and accessing private funding from the community for the program.

(f) Expenses incurred by a volunteer advocate program to promote public awareness of the need for volunteer advocates or to explain the work performed by volunteer advocates that are paid with money from the commission volunteer advocate program account under Section 504.611, Transportation Code, are not considered administrative expenses for the purpose of Section 264.603(b).
Tex. Government Code § 2166.006 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 2166 / Section 2166.006
§ 2166.006. LEGAL REPRESENTATION OF COMMISSION.
Status: in_force

(a) The attorney general shall represent the commission in legal matters.

(b) The attorney general may employ special assistants to assist in the performance of duties arising under this chapter.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 9021.003 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 9021 / Section 9021.003
§ 9021.003. CONFIRMATION ELECTION REQUIRED.
Status: in_force

If the creation of the district is not confirmed at a confirmation election held under Section 9021.024 before November 4, 2009:

(1) the district is dissolved November 4, 2009, except that the district shall:

(A) pay any debts incurred;

(B) transfer to Wise County any assets that remain after the payment of debts; and

(C) maintain the organization of the district until all debts are paid and remaining assets are transferred; and

(2) this chapter expires September 1, 2014.
Tex. Water Code § 17.172 — TX Code / Code wa / Chapter 17 / Section 17.172
§ 17.172. APPLICABILITY.
Status: in_force

This subchapter applies to financial assistance made available from the water supply account, the water quality enhancement account, the flood control account, and the economically distressed areas account under Subchapters D, F, G, and K of this chapter.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8473.254 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8473 / Section 8473.254
§ 8473.254. ASSESSMENTS; LIENS FOR ASSESSMENTS.
Status: in_force

(a) An assessment or a reassessment imposed under this subchapter by the district, penalties and interest on an assessment or reassessment, an expense of collection, and reasonable attorney's fees incurred by the district:

(1) are a first and prior lien against the property assessed;

(2) are superior to any other lien or claim other than a lien or claim for county, school district, or municipal ad valorem taxes; and

(3) are the personal liability of and a charge against the owners of the property even if the owners are not named in the assessment proceedings.

(b) The lien is effective from the date of the board's resolution imposing the assessment until the date the assessment is paid. The board may enforce the lien in the same manner that the board may enforce an ad valorem tax lien against real property.

(c) The board may make a correction to or deletion from the assessment roll that does not increase the amount of assessment of any parcel of land without providing notice and holding a hearing in the manner required for additional assessments.
Tex. Government Code § 820.053 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 820 / Section 820.053
§ 820.053. CASH BALANCE BENEFITS FOR MEMBERS.
Status: in_force

(a) The state match for the cash balance benefit for:

(1) service credited to the employee class of membership is an amount computed by multiplying the member's accumulated account balance by 150 percent;

(2) service credited to the employee class of membership by a member eligible to retire under this chapter as a law enforcement or custodial officer is an amount computed by multiplying the member's accumulated account balance by:

(A) except as provided by Paragraph (B), 150 percent; and

(B) for the portion of the accumulated account balance based on the member's additional two percent contribution under Section 820.101(b), including interest, attributable to service as a law enforcement or custodial officer, 300 percent, paid from the law enforcement and custodial officer supplemental retirement fund; and

(3) subject to Subsection (c), service credited to the elected class of membership is an amount computed by multiplying the member's accumulated account balance by 150 percent.

(b) The retirement system shall compute a member's cash balance annuity under this section by taking the sum of the member's accumulated account balance and the state match computed under Subsection (a) and annuitizing that amount over the life expectancy of the member as of the effective date of the member's retirement using mortality and other tables adopted by the board for that purpose under Section 815.105.

(c) For purposes of this section, a member of the elected class of membership under Section 812.002(a)(2) shall have the member's accumulated account balance computed as if the contributions to the account were based on the dollar amount on which the standard service retirement annuity is based under Section 814.103(a), subject to adjustment under Section 814.103(a-2).
Tex. Insurance Code § 651.165 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 651 / Section 651.165
§ 651.165. REQUIRED NOTICE OF CERTAIN PREMIUM FINANCE AGREEMENTS.
Status: in_force

(a) An insurance premium finance company that enters into a premium finance agreement that includes an assignment or power of attorney shall notify the insurer or the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, the Texas Automobile Insurance Plan Association, or the Texas Medical Liability Insurance Underwriting Association whose premiums are being financed:

(1) of the existence of the agreement; and

(2) to whom the premium payment has been made.

(b) An insurance premium finance company shall notify and fund all premiums to a county mutual insurance company unless the insurance premium finance company is authorized in writing by the county mutual insurance company to notify or fund an agent or managing general agent.

(c) Notice required under this section must be made before the 31st day after the date the premium finance agreement is accepted by the insurance premium finance company.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8274.052 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8274 / Section 8274.052
§ 8274.052. DIRECTOR'S BOND.
Status: in_force

Each director shall qualify by giving bond in the amount of $5,000 for the faithful performance of the director's duties.
Tex. Government Code § 532.0306 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 532 / Section 532.0306
§ 532.0306. WELLNESS SCREENING PROGRAM.
Status: in_force

If cost-effective, the commission may implement a wellness screening program for recipients that is designed to evaluate a recipient's risk for having certain diseases and medical conditions to establish:

(1) a health baseline for each recipient that may be used to tailor the recipient's treatment plan; or

(2) the recipient's health goals.
Tex. Human Resources Code § 42.0536 — TX Code / Code hr / Chapter 42 / Section 42.0536
§ 42.0536. TRANSFER OF AGENCY FOSTER HOME.
Status: in_force

(a) An agency foster home that is verified by a child-placing agency may transfer to another child-placing agency only if, before the date of the transfer, the agency foster home notifies the child-placing agency to which the agency foster home is transferring of each licensing violation for which the agency foster home has been cited by the department during the preceding three years.

(b) The child-placing agency to which the agency foster home is transferring shall submit a written request for transfer to the child-placing agency that verified the agency foster home.

(c) Not later than the 10th day after the date the child-placing agency receives a request for transfer under Subsection (b), the child-placing agency shall provide the child-placing agency that submitted the request a copy of any of the following documents regarding the agency foster home:

(1) a corrective action plan;

(2) an annual development plan; or

(3) a description of any imposed or potential service limitation.

(d) The department caseworker for each child placed in the agency foster home may conduct a review meeting to determine whether the transfer of the agency foster home is in the best interest of each child in the home on the request of:

(1) the child-placing agency to which the agency foster home is transferring;

(2) the child-placing agency that verified the agency foster home;

(3) the agency foster home; or

(4) the caseworker.

(e) After a review meeting, the caseworker shall determine whether each child placed in the agency foster home shall:

(1) stay in the agency foster home after the agency foster home is transferred to the new child-placing agency; or

(2) be removed from the agency foster home before the agency foster home is transferred to the new child-placing agency.
Tex. Government Code § 1206.021 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 1206 / Section 1206.021
§ 1206.021. DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

In this subchapter, "issuer," "public security," and "public security authorization" have the meanings assigned by Section 1201.002.
Tex. Government Code § 824.401 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 824 / Section 824.401
§ 824.401. AVAILABILITY OF ANNUITY.
Status: in_force

(a) A death benefit annuity under this chapter is payable only if the decedent had, at the time of death, at least the minimum amount of service credit in the retirement system necessary for a service retirement annuity at an attained age.

(b) Multiple beneficiaries are not eligible to receive a death benefit annuity under Section 824.402(a)(4) or an equivalent annuity under Section 824.403.
Tex. Family Code § 264.8521 — TX Code / Code fa / Chapter 264 / Section 264.8521
§ 264.8521. NOTICE TO APPLICANTS.
Status: in_force

At the time a person applies to become verified by a licensed child-placing agency to provide foster care in order to qualify for the permanency care assistance program, the department or the child-placing agency shall:

(1) notify the applicant that a background check, including a criminal history record check, will be conducted on the individual; and

(2) inform the applicant about criminal convictions that:

(A) preclude an individual from becoming a verified agency foster home; and

(B) may also be considered in evaluating the individual's application.
Tex. Local Government Code § 302.005 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 302 / Section 302.005
§ 302.005. BIDDING PROCEDURES; AWARD OF CONTRACT.
Status: in_force

(a) An energy savings performance contract under this chapter may be let in accordance with the procedures established for procuring certain professional services by Section 2254.004, Government Code. Notice of the request for qualifications shall be published in the manner provided for competitive bidding.

(b) Before entering into an energy savings performance contract, the governing body must require that the energy savings, increase in billable revenues, or increase in meter accuracy estimated or projected by a provider be reviewed by a licensed professional engineer who:

(1) has a minimum of three years of experience in energy calculation and review;

(2) is not an officer or employee of a provider for the contract under review; and

(3) is not otherwise associated with the contract.

(c) In conducting the review, the engineer shall focus primarily on the proposed improvements from an engineering perspective, the methodology and calculations related to cost savings, increases in revenue, and, if applicable, efficiency or accuracy of metering equipment. An engineer who reviews a contract shall maintain the confidentiality of any proprietary information the engineer acquires while reviewing the contract. Sections 1001.053 and 1001.407, Occupations Code, apply to work performed under the contract.

(d) The scope of an energy savings performance contract may not be modified under this section by change order, contract addendum, or other method:

(1) to perform work that is not related to, connected with, or otherwise ancillary to the measures identified in the original scope of an energy savings performance contract; or

(2) in a way that increases the price of the original awarded contract by more than 25 percent of the original contract value.

(e) Subsection (d) applies only to the design or construction of a water supply project, water plant, wastewater plant, water and wastewater distribution or conveyance facility, or drainage project.
Tex. Utilities Code § 162.074 — TX Code / Code ut / Chapter 162 / Section 162.074
§ 162.074. INSURANCE FOR DIRECTORS.
Status: in_force

A telephone cooperative may provide liability, accident, life, and health insurance coverage for a director who chooses to have that coverage.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 597.003 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 597 / Section 597.003
§ 597.003. EXCEPTIONS.
Status: in_force

(a) This chapter does not apply to decisions for the following:

(1) experimental research;

(2) abortion;

(3) sterilization;

(4) management of client funds; and

(5) electroconvulsive treatment.

(b) This chapter does not apply to campus-based facilities operated by the department.
Tex. Education Code § 130.305 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 130 / Section 130.305
§ 130.305. ACCREDITATION.
Status: in_force

A public junior college offering a baccalaureate degree program under this subchapter must meet all applicable accreditation requirements of a recognized accrediting agency.
Tex. Natural Resources Code § 91.254 — TX Code / Code nr / Chapter 91 / Section 91.254
§ 91.254. INSPECTION; EXAMINATION; CREDENTIALS.
Status: in_force

(a) The commission may inspect a storage facility for compliance with the safety standards and practices and the recordkeeping requirements adopted under Sections 91.255, 91.257, and 91.258.

(b) To conduct an inspection under this section, a commissioner or a designated commission employee or agent may enter property on which a storage facility is located at a reasonable time and in a reasonable manner to examine:

(1) the facility and any related buildings or equipment; and

(2) the records required to be maintained at the storage facility under Section 91.258.

(c) A commissioner or a commission employee or agent may not enter the premises of a storage facility having personnel on the premises of the facility unless proper credentials are first presented to the person at the facility who is in charge of the property.
Tex. Utilities Code § 12.202 — TX Code / Code ut / Chapter 12 / Section 12.202
§ 12.202. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.
Status: in_force

(a) The commission shall develop and implement policies that provide the public with a reasonable opportunity to appear before the commission and to speak on any issue under the jurisdiction of the commission.

(a-1) The policies adopted under this section must require the agenda for each regular commission meeting to include public testimony as a meeting agenda item and allow members of the public to comment on:

(1) each meeting agenda item unrelated to a contested case; and

(2) other matters under the commission's jurisdiction.

(a-2) The commission may prohibit public comment at a regular commission meeting on a meeting agenda item related to a contested case.

(b) The commission shall comply with federal and state laws related to program and facility accessibility.

(c) The commission shall prepare and maintain a written plan that describes how a person who does not speak English may be provided reasonable access to the commission's programs and services.
Tex. Human Resources Code § 36.007 — TX Code / Code hr / Chapter 36 / Section 36.007
§ 36.007. RECOVERY OF COSTS, FEES, AND EXPENSES.
Status: in_force

The attorney general may recover fees, expenses, and costs reasonably incurred in obtaining injunctive relief or civil remedies or in conducting investigations under this chapter, including court costs, reasonable attorney's fees, witness fees, and deposition fees.
Tex. Occupations Code § 1304.1025 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 1304 / Section 1304.1025
§ 1304.1025. ADDITIONAL REGISTRATION AND RENEWAL REQUIREMENTS FOR PROVIDERS.
Status: in_force

(a) In addition to the requirements of Section 1304.102, an applicant for issuance or renewal of a provider registration must file with the application:

(1) the reimbursement insurance policy, if the provider is using a reimbursement insurance policy to meet the financial security requirements of Section 1304.151;

(2) the financial security deposit and the documentation required by the department demonstrating adequate funding of the reserve account, if the provider is using a funded reserve account and financial security deposit to meet the financial security requirements of Section 1304.151;

(3) the proof necessary to demonstrate the applicant or its parent company maintains at least $100 million net worth, if the applicant is using net worth to meet the financial security requirements of Section 1304.151; and

(4) information about each controlling person of the applicant in a form prescribed by the executive director.

(b) The executive director may not issue or renew a registration to a provider unless the provider provides evidence to the executive director that:

(1) each controlling person of the provider is trustworthy and can competently manage the affairs of the provider in compliance with this chapter; and

(2) the provider can meet the provider's obligations under service contracts and this chapter.

(c) Not later than the 30th day after the date of a provider's initial registration, the provider must provide to the department a list of any Internet website address through which a consumer may purchase the provider's service contracts and the name, assumed name, street address, and telephone number of:

(1) any administrator appointed by the provider under Section 1304.153; and

(2) any seller of the provider's service contracts, other than a seller that is:

(A) an employee of the provider; or

(B) a business with a physical location in this state at which a consumer may purchase a service contract.

(d) The provider shall update the list required by Subsection (c) with each renewal.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8877.151 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8877 / Section 8877.151
§ 8877.151. MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION TAX.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the district may impose an ad valorem tax at a rate not to exceed five cents on each $100 of valuation of property in the district to pay for the maintenance and operation of the district on approval of a majority of the voters of the district at an election held for that purpose.

(b) The board may increase the maximum amount of ad valorem taxes that may be imposed in the district:

(1) if the board determines that the maximum tax authorized by Subsection (a) is not sufficient to pay the maintenance and operating expenses of the district; and

(2) on approval of a majority of the voters of the district voting at an election held for that purpose.

(c) The maximum amount of taxes that may be authorized under this section may not exceed 25 cents on each $100 of valuation of property in the district.
Tex. Government Code § 551.050 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 551 / Section 551.050
§ 551.050.
Status: in_force

Sec. 551.050. MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENTAL BODY: PLACE OF POSTING NOTICE. (a) In this section, "electronic bulletin board" means an electronic communication system that includes a perpetually illuminated screen on which the governmental body can post messages or notices viewable without manipulation by the public.

(b) A municipal governmental body shall post notice of each meeting on a physical or electronic bulletin board at a place convenient to the public in the city hall.
Tex. Election Code § 277.0023 — TX Code / Code el / Chapter 277 / Section 277.0023
§ 277.0023. SUPPLEMENTING PETITION.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a petition may not be supplemented, modified, or amended on or after the date it is received by the authority with whom it is required to be filed unless expressly authorized by law.

(b) If a petition is required to be filed by a specified deadline, the petitioner may file one supplementary petition by that deadline if the original petition contains a number of signatures that exceeds the required minimum number by 10 percent or more and is received by the authority with whom it is required to be filed not later than the 10th day before the date of the deadline. The authority shall notify the petitioner as to the sufficiency of the petition not later than the fifth regular business day after the date of its receipt.