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Tex. Family Code § 153.6083 — TX Code / Code fa / Chapter 153 / Section 153.6083
§ 153.6083. COMMUNICATIONS AND RECORDKEEPING OF PARENTING FACILITATOR.
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any rule, standard of care, or privilege applicable to the professional license held by a parenting facilitator, a communication made by a participant in parenting facilitation is subject to disclosure and may be offered in any judicial or administrative proceeding, if otherwise admissible under the rules of evidence. The parenting facilitator may be required to testify in any proceeding relating to or arising from the duties of the parenting facilitator, including as to the basis for any recommendation made to the parties that arises from the duties of the parenting facilitator.

(b) A parenting facilitator shall keep a detailed record regarding meetings and contacts with the parties, attorneys, or other persons involved in the suit.

(c) A person who participates in parenting facilitation is not a patient as defined by Section 611.001, Health and Safety Code, and no record created as part of the parenting facilitation that arises from the parenting facilitator's duties is confidential.

(d) On request, records of parenting facilitation shall be made available by the parenting facilitator to an attorney for a party, an attorney for a child who is the subject of the suit, and a party who does not have an attorney.

(e) A parenting facilitator shall keep parenting facilitation records from the suit until the seventh anniversary of the date the facilitator's services are terminated, unless a different retention period is established by a rule adopted by the licensing authority that issues the professional license held by the parenting facilitator.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8878.151 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8878 / Section 8878.151
§ 8878.151. REVENUE BONDS AND NOTES.
Status: in_force

(a) The authority may issue bonds or notes payable solely from revenue from any source, including:

(1) tolls, charges, rates, fees, and user fees the authority imposes or collects;

(2) the sale of water, water services, water rights or capacity, water transmission rights or services, water pumping, or any other service or product of the authority provided inside or outside the boundaries of the authority;

(3) grants or gifts;

(4) the ownership or operation of all or a designated part of the authority's works, improvements, facilities, plants, or equipment; and

(5) contracts between the authority and any person.

(b) Notes issued by the authority may be first or subordinate lien notes at the board's discretion.

(c) In connection with any bonds or notes of the authority, the authority may exercise any power of an issuer under Chapter 1371, Government Code.

(d) The authority may conduct a public, private, or negotiated sale of the bonds or notes.

(e) The authority may enter into one or more indentures of trust to further secure its bonds or notes.

(f) The authority may issue bonds or notes in more than one series as necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. In issuing bonds or notes secured by revenue of the authority, the authority may reserve the right to issue additional bonds or notes secured by the authority's revenue that are on a parity with or are senior or subordinate to the bonds or notes issued earlier.

(g) A resolution of the board authorizing the bonds or notes or a trust indenture securing the bonds or notes may specify additional provisions that constitute a contract between the authority and its bondholders or noteholders.

(h) Bonds and notes may be additionally secured by deed of trust or mortgage on any or all of the authority's facilities.

(i) The authority may issue refunding bonds or notes to refund any of its bonds or notes in any manner provided by law.

(j) Sections 49.153, 49.154, and 49.181, Water Code, do not apply to bonds or notes issued by the authority. Commission rules regarding bonds or notes do not apply to bonds or notes issued by the authority.
Tex. Utilities Code § 15.033 — TX Code / Code ut / Chapter 15 / Section 15.033
§ 15.033. DISPOSITION OF FINES AND PENALTIES.
Status: in_force

A fine or penalty collected under this title, other than a fine or penalty collected in a criminal proceeding or a penalty collected under Section 15.027(a), shall be paid to the commission.
Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 89.003 — TX Code / Code pw / Chapter 89 / Section 89.003
§ 89.003. DEPARTMENT AUTHORIZED TO SERVE AS PERMITTEE.
Status: in_force

(a) The department may apply for a federal permit and serve as permittee for an artificial reef located in water covered under this chapter if the establishment of the reef complies with this chapter and the National Fishing Enhancement Act.

(b) In applying for a permit under this section, the department shall:

(1) consult with and consider the views of appropriate federal and state agencies, local governments, and other interested persons;

(2) ensure that the provisions in the permit for siting, constructing, monitoring, maintaining, and managing an artificial reef are consistent with the criteria and standards established under this chapter and the National Fishing Enhancement Act;

(3) ensure that title to an artificial reef component or construction material is unambiguous; and

(4) consider the national artificial reef plan adopted under the National Fishing Enhancement Act and notify the Secretary of the United States Department of Commerce of any need to deviate from that plan.
Tex. Election Code § 172.058 — TX Code / Code el / Chapter 172 / Section 172.058
§ 172.058. DECEASED OR INELIGIBLE CANDIDATE'S NAME TO APPEAR ON GENERAL PRIMARY BALLOT.
Status: in_force

(a) If a candidate who has made an application for a place on the general primary election ballot that complies with the applicable requirements dies or is declared ineligible after the first day after the date of the regular filing deadline, the candidate's name shall be placed on the ballot and the votes cast for the candidate shall be counted and entered on the official election returns in the same manner as for the other candidates.

(b) If the deceased or ineligible candidate receives the vote required for nomination, the appropriate executive committee may select the nominee and certify the nominee's name for placement on the general election ballot as provided by Subchapter B, Chapter 145, for filling a vacancy in a nomination.

(c) In a race in which a runoff is required, if the deceased or ineligible candidate received the vote that would entitle the candidate to a place on the runoff primary ballot or tied for that number of votes, the candidates in the runoff shall be determined in the regular manner but without regard to the votes received by the deceased or ineligible candidate.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 751.005 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 751 / Section 751.005
§ 751.005. INVESTIGATION.
Status: in_force

(a) After a permit application is filed with the county judge, the county judge shall send a copy of the application to the county health authority, the county fire marshal or the person designated under Subsection (c), and the sheriff.

(b) The county health authority shall inquire into preparations for the mass gathering. At least five days before the date on which the hearing prescribed by Section 751.006 is held, the county health authority shall submit to the county judge a report stating whether the health authority believes that the minimum standards of health and sanitation prescribed by state and local laws, rules, and orders will be maintained.

(c) The county fire marshal shall investigate preparations for the mass gathering. If there is no county fire marshal in that county, the commissioners court shall designate a person to act under this section. At least five days before the date on which the hearing prescribed by Section 751.006 is held, the county fire marshal or the commissioners court designee shall submit to the county judge a report stating whether the fire marshal or designee believes that the minimum standards for ensuring public fire safety and order as prescribed by state and local laws, rules, and orders will be maintained.

(d) The sheriff shall investigate preparations for the mass gathering. At least five days before the date on which the hearing prescribed by Section 751.006 is held, the sheriff shall submit to the county judge a report stating whether the sheriff believes that the minimum standards for ensuring public safety and order that are prescribed by state and local laws, rules, and orders will be maintained.

(e) The county judge may conduct any additional investigation that the judge considers necessary.

(f) The county health authority, county fire marshal or commissioners court designee, and sheriff shall be available at the hearing prescribed by Section 751.006 to give testimony relating to their reports.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1050.303 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1050 / Section 1050.303
§ 1050.303. BALLOT.
Status: in_force

The ballot for an election under this subchapter must be printed to permit voting for or against the proposition: "The dissolution of the Knox County Hospital District."
Tex. Property Code § 116.161 — TX Code / Code pr / Chapter 116 / Section 116.161
§ 116.161. PRINCIPAL RECEIPTS.
Status: in_force

A trustee shall allocate to principal:

(1) to the extent not allocated to income under this chapter, assets received from a transferor during the transferor's lifetime, a decedent's estate, a trust with a terminating income interest, or a payer under a contract naming the trust or its trustee as beneficiary;

(2) money or other property received from the sale, exchange, liquidation, or change in form of a principal asset, including realized profit, subject to this subchapter;

(3) amounts recovered from third parties to reimburse the trust because of disbursements described in Section 116.202(a)(7) or for other reasons to the extent not based on the loss of income;

(4) proceeds of property taken by eminent domain, but a separate award made for the loss of income with respect to an accounting period during which a current income beneficiary had a mandatory income interest is income;

(5) net income received in an accounting period during which there is no beneficiary to whom a trustee may or must distribute income; and

(6) other receipts as provided in Part 3.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 6604.105 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 6604 / Section 6604.105
§ 6604.105. ARRANGEMENTS WITH UNITED STATES.
Status: in_force

(a) The district may cooperate with, contract with, or receive a grant, loan, or advancement from the United States to exercise a district power or to further a district purpose.

(b) The district may contribute to the United States in connection with any project that is undertaken by the United States and affects or relates to a district purpose.
Tex. Insurance Code § 885.261 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 885 / Section 885.261
§ 885.261. CONTROL OF FUND BY LODGE.
Status: in_force

(a) This section applies if the constitution and bylaws of the grand lodge or governing body of a fraternal benefit society:

(1) provide that all or part of the beneficiary, mortuary, or insurance fund of the society that is paid by or collected from the members of a lodge may be retained in the custody of and controlled and managed by the lodge; and

(2) designate an officer of the lodge to have custody and control of a fund described by Subdivision (1) and authority to loan or invest the fund.

(b) A lodge officer having custody and control of a fund described by Subsection (a)(1) shall execute a bond or other written instrument to be prescribed and approved in terms and amount by the commissioner to indemnify the fund against waste, depletion, or loss. The lodge officer shall file the bond or other written instrument with the department, if required to do so by the department.

(c) A fund secured as provided by Subsection (b) is exempt from this chapter.
Tex. Insurance Code § 4201.401 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 4201 / Section 4201.401
§ 4201.401. REVIEW BY INDEPENDENT REVIEW ORGANIZATION; COMPLIANCE WITH INDEPENDENT DETERMINATION.
Status: in_force

(a) A utilization review agent shall allow any party whose appeal of an adverse determination is denied by the agent to seek review of that determination by an independent review organization assigned to the appeal in accordance with Chapter 4202.

(b) The utilization review agent shall comply with the independent review organization's determination regarding the medical necessity or appropriateness of health care items and services for an enrollee.

(c) The utilization review agent shall comply with the independent review organization's determination regarding the experimental or investigational nature of health care items and services for an enrollee.
Tex. Government Code § 544.0452 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 544 / Section 544.0452
§ 544.0452. MEDICAID FRAUD INVESTIGATION TRACKING SYSTEM.
Status: in_force

(a) The commission shall use an automated fraud investigation tracking system through the office of inspector general to monitor the progress of an investigation of suspected fraud, abuse, or insufficient quality of care in Medicaid.

(b) For each case of suspected fraud, abuse, or insufficient quality of care the technology required under Section 544.0451 identifies, the automated fraud investigation tracking system must:

(1) receive from the technology electronically transferred records relating to the case;

(2) record the details and monitor the status of an investigation of the case, including maintaining a record of the beginning and completion dates for each phase of the case investigation;

(3) generate documents and reports related to the status of the case investigation; and

(4) generate standard letters to a provider regarding the status or outcome of an investigation.

(c) The commission shall require each health and human services agency that performs any part of Medicaid to participate in implementing and using the automated fraud investigation tracking system.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8498.102 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8498 / Section 8498.102
§ 8498.102. MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT POWERS AND DUTIES.
Status: in_force

The district has the powers and duties provided by the general law of this state, including Chapters 49 and 54, Water Code, applicable to municipal utility districts created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution.
Tex. Labor Code § 301.043 — TX Code / Code la / Chapter 301 / Section 301.043
§ 301.043. STANDARDS OF CONDUCT INFORMATION.
Status: in_force

The executive director or the executive director's designee shall provide to the members of the commission and employees of the commission, as often as necessary, information regarding the requirements for office or employment under this chapter, including information regarding a person's responsibilities under applicable laws relating to standards of conduct for state officers or employees.
Tex. Estates Code § 1157.104 — TX Code / Code es / Chapter 1157 / Section 1157.104
§ 1157.104. PAYMENT OF PROCEEDS FROM SALE OF PROPERTY SECURING DEBT.
Status: in_force

(a) If a guardian of the estate has on hand the proceeds of a sale made to satisfy a mortgage or other lien and the proceeds or any part of the proceeds are not required for the payment of any debts against the estate that have a preference over the mortgage or other lien, the guardian shall pay the proceeds to a holder of the mortgage or other lien.

(b) If the guardian fails to pay the proceeds as required by this section, the holder of a mortgage or other lien, on proof of the mortgage or other lien, may obtain an order from the court directing the payment of proceeds to be made.
Tex. Family Code § 8.266 — TX Code / Code fa / Chapter 8 / Section 8.266
§ 8.266. FAILURE TO RECEIVE NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF WITHHOLDING.
Status: in_force

(a) Not later than the 30th day after the date of the first pay period after the date the obligor's employer receives a writ of withholding, the obligor may file an affidavit with the court stating that:

(1) the obligor did not timely file a motion to stay because the obligor did not receive the notice of application for a writ of withholding; and

(2) grounds exist for a motion to stay.

(b) The obligor may:

(1) file with the affidavit a motion to withdraw the writ of withholding; and

(2) request a hearing on the applicability of the writ.

(c) Income withholding may not be interrupted until after the hearing at which the court renders an order denying or modifying withholding.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1108.114 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1108 / Section 1108.114
§ 1108.114. REIMBURSEMENT FOR SERVICES.
Status: in_force

(a) The board shall require a county or municipality located outside the district to reimburse the district for the care and treatment of a sick or injured person of that county or municipality.

(b) The board shall require the sheriff of Trinity County to reimburse the district for the care and treatment of a prisoner imprisoned in Trinity County who is not a district resident.

(c) The district may contract with this state or a federal agency for the reimbursement for the treatment of a sick or injured person.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 366.053 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 366 / Section 366.053
§ 366.053. PERMIT APPLICATION.
Status: in_force

(a) Application for a permit must:

(1) be made on a form provided by the commission or authorized agent; and

(2) include information required by the commission or authorized agent to establish that the individual sewage disposal system complies with this chapter and rules adopted under this chapter.

(b) The commission shall adopt rules and procedures for the submission, review, and approval or rejection of permit applications.
Tex. Election Code § 191.004 — TX Code / Code el / Chapter 191 / Section 191.004
§ 191.004. PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY BALLOT.
Status: in_force

(a) A single ballot shall be used for the presidential primary election and general primary election. The secretary of state shall prescribe the form of the ballot, which must accommodate the regular form for the general primary election to the extent practicable.

(b) The names of the presidential candidates shall be printed as the first race on the ballot under the heading "Preference For Presidential Nominee" followed by the instruction, "You may vote for one presidential candidate whose name appears on the ballot by making a mark in the shape beside the candidate's name." If party rules provide for voting for an uncommitted status, the instruction shall read, "You may vote for one presidential candidate whose name appears on the ballot by making a mark in the shape beside the candidate's name or you may vote as uncommitted by making a mark in the shape beside 'Uncommitted.' Make only one choice." The instruction shall be changed as appropriate to accommodate the form of a voting system ballot.

(c) A drawing to determine the order in which the presidential candidates' names are printed on the ballot in the county shall be conducted in conjunction with the regular drawing for position on the general primary election ballot. "Uncommitted" shall be printed on the ballot following the candidates' names, if applicable.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3932.103 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3932 / Section 3932.103
§ 3932.103. DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION POWERS.
Status: in_force

The district, using money available to the district, may exercise the powers given to a development corporation under Chapter 505, Local Government Code, including the power to own, operate, acquire, construct, lease, improve, or maintain a project under that chapter.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8327.102 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8327 / Section 8327.102
§ 8327.102. MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT POWERS AND DUTIES.
Status: in_force

The district has the powers and duties provided by the general law of this state, including Chapters 49 and 54, Water Code, applicable to municipal utility districts created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution.
Tex. Occupations Code § 156.056 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 156 / Section 156.056
§ 156.056. CERTAIN VOLUNTEER SERVICES.
Status: in_force

(a) In this section, "practice serving a medically underserved population" has the meaning assigned by Section 157.051.

(b) The board by rule shall permit a license holder to complete half of any informal continuing medical education hours required under this subchapter by providing volunteer medical services at a practice serving a medically underserved population other than a site that is a primary practice site of the license holder.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7915.102 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7915 / Section 7915.102
§ 7915.102. MUNICIPAL UTILITY DISTRICT POWERS AND DUTIES.
Status: in_force

The district has the powers and duties provided by the general law of this state, including Chapters 49 and 54, Water Code, applicable to municipal utility districts created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8865.103 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8865 / Section 8865.103
§ 8865.103. LIMITATION ON POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN.
Status: in_force

The district does not have the authority granted by Section 36.105, Water Code, relating to eminent domain.
Tex. Natural Resources Code § 31.065 — TX Code / Code nr / Chapter 31 / Section 31.065
§ 31.065. AUTHORITY TO ACCEPT GRANTS, GIFTS, DEVISES, TRUSTS, AND BEQUESTS.
Status: in_force

(a) In the absence of any law to the contrary, the commissioner may, if the commissioner determines it to be in the best interest of the state, accept grants, gifts, devises, or bequests, either absolutely or in trust, of money or real or personal property on behalf of the state. Real property so acquired by the state becomes public free school land unless the person making the grant, gift, devise, or bequest provides that the real property is to be possessed, administered, or used by a particular state agency, board, commission, department, or other particular state entity or provides that it is to be held in some other manner by the state.

(b) Under Subsection (a) of this section, the commissioner may accept a grant, gift, devise, or bequest even if it is encumbered, restricted, or subject to a beneficial interest of private persons or corporations as long as any current or future use or interest in the grant, gift, devise, or bequest is for the benefit of the state.

(c) If the commissioner determines that the real property acquired by the state by grant, gift, devise, or bequest is not suitable for the purpose for which the grant, gift, devise, or bequest was originally made, the commissioner together with the agency, board, commission, department, or other state entity, if any, designated to possess, administer, or use the real property may exchange the real property for real property that is suitable for such purpose.

(d) If real property acquired by grant, gift, devise, or bequest is not held as part of the permanent school fund or possessed, administered, or used by a particular state agency, board, commission, department, or other particular state entity, the commissioner may manage that real property or sell or exchange the real property under terms and conditions the commissioner determines to be in the best interest of the state. Real property sold under this subsection must be sold in accordance with Section 31.158. Proceeds of the sale that are not required for the management of real property under this subsection shall be deposited in the Texas farm and ranch lands conservation fund established under Chapter 84, Parks and Wildlife Code. Real property acquired under this subsection may be dedicated by the commissioner to any state agency, board, commission, or department, a political subdivision or other governmental entity of this state, or the federal government, for the benefit and use of the public in exchange for nonmonetary consideration, if the commissioner determines that the exchange is in the best interest of the state.

(e) The commissioner may adopt rules necessary to implement this section.