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Tex. Health and Safety Code § 92.006 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 92 / Section 92.006
§ 92.006. CONFIDENTIALITY.
Status: in_force

(a) All information and records relating to injuries are confidential, including information from injury investigations. That information may not be released or made public on subpoena or otherwise, except that release may be made:

(1) for statistical purposes, but only if a person is not identified;

(2) with the consent of each person identified in the information released; or

(3) to medical personnel in a medical emergency to the extent necessary to protect the health or life of the named person.

(b) The executive commissioner shall adopt rules establishing procedures to ensure that all information and records maintained by the department under this subchapter are kept confidential and protected from release to unauthorized persons.

(c) The commissioner, the commissioner's designee, the executive commissioner, or an employee of the department or commission may not be examined in a judicial or other proceeding about the existence or contents of pertinent records of, investigation reports of, or reports or information about a person examined or treated for an injury without that person's consent.
Tex. Water Code § 41.0081 — TX Code / Code wa / Chapter 41 / Section 41.0081
§ 41.0081. NOTICE OF COMPACT MEETINGS.
Status: in_force

For informational purposes, the commissioner shall file with the secretary of state notice of compact meetings for publication in the Texas Register.
Tex. Human Resources Code § 40.030 — TX Code / Code hr / Chapter 40 / Section 40.030
§ 40.030. ADVISORY COMMITTEES.
Status: in_force

(a) The commissioner or the commissioner's designee may appoint advisory committees in accordance with Chapter 2110, Government Code.

(b) The commissioner shall adopt rules, in compliance with Chapter 2110, Government Code, regarding the purpose, structure, and use of advisory committees by the department. The rules may include provisions governing:

(1) an advisory committee's size and quorum requirements;

(2) qualifications for membership of an advisory committee, including:

(A) requirements relating to experience and geographic representation; and

(B) requirements for the department to include as members of advisory committees youth who have aged out of foster care and parents who have successfully completed family service plans and whose children were returned to the parents, as applicable;

(3) appointment procedures for an advisory committee;

(4) terms for advisory committee members; and

(5) compliance with Chapter 551, Government Code.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8858.054 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8858 / Section 8858.054
§ 8858.054. QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICE.
Status: in_force

To be qualified to be a candidate for or to serve as director, a person must be a registered voter in the single-member district that the person represents or seeks to represent.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1038.006 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1038 / Section 1038.006
§ 1038.006. RESTRICTION ON STATE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE.
Status: in_force

The legislature may not make a direct appropriation for the construction, maintenance, or improvement of a district facility.
Tex. Government Code § 2257.111 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 2257 / Section 2257.111
§ 2257.111. PENALTY PROCEEDING CONTESTED CASE.
Status: in_force

A proceeding to impose a penalty under Section 2257.107, 2257.108, or 2257.109 is a contested case under Chapter 2001.
Tex. Occupations Code § 1702.3867 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 1702 / Section 1702.3867
§ 1702.3867. EXECUTION OF CAPIAS OR ARREST WARRANT; OFFENSE.
Status: in_force

(a) A private investigator executing a capias or an arrest warrant on behalf of a bail bond surety may not:

(1) enter a residence without the consent of the occupants;

(2) execute the capias or warrant without written authorization from the surety;

(3) wear, carry, or display any uniform, badge, shield, or other insignia or emblem that implies that the private investigator is an employee, officer, or agent of the federal government, the state, or a political subdivision of the state; or

(4) notwithstanding Section 9.51, Penal Code, use deadly force.

(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a)(3), a private investigator may display identification that indicates that the person is acting on behalf of a bail bond surety.

(c) A private investigator executing a capias or an arrest warrant on behalf of a bail bond surety shall immediately take the person arrested to:

(1) if the arrest is made in the county in which the capias or warrant was issued:

(A) the county jail for that county if:

(i) the offense is a Class A or Class B misdemeanor or a felony; or

(ii) the offense is a Class C misdemeanor and the capias or warrant was issued by a magistrate of that county; or

(B) the municipal jail for the appropriate municipality if the offense is a Class C misdemeanor and the capias or warrant was issued by a magistrate of the municipality; or

(2) if the arrest is made in a county other than the county in which the capias or warrant was issued, the county jail for the county in which the arrest is made.

(d) A person commits an offense if the person violates this section. An offense under this section is a state jail felony.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8024.0101 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8024 / Section 8024.0101
§ 8024.0101. ELECTIONS REGARDING TAXES OR BONDS.
Status: in_force

(a) The district may issue bonds, notes, and other obligations secured by revenues or contract payments from any lawful source other than ad valorem taxes without an election.

(b) The district may issue bonds, notes, and other obligations secured wholly or partly by ad valorem taxes only if the issuance is approved by a vote of a two-thirds majority of the district voters voting at an election held for that purpose.
Tex. Education Code § 37.082 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 37 / Section 37.082
§ 37.082. STUDENT USE OF PERSONAL COMMUNICATION DEVICES.
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any other law and subject to Subsection (c), the board of trustees of a school district or the governing body of an open-enrollment charter school shall adopt, implement, and ensure the district or school complies with a written policy prohibiting a student from using a personal communication device while on school property during the school day. The policy must establish disciplinary measures to be imposed for violation of the prohibition and may provide for confiscation of the personal communication device.

(b) The policy may provide for the school district or open-enrollment charter school to:

(1) comply with this section by:

(A) prohibiting a student from bringing a personal communication device on school property; or

(B) designating a method for the storage of a student's personal communication device while the student is on school property during the school day; and

(2) dispose of a confiscated personal communication device in any reasonable manner after having provided the student's parent 90 days' prior notice in writing of the district's or school's intent to dispose of that device.

(c) In adopting the policy, the board of trustees of a school district or governing body of an open-enrollment charter school must authorize the use of a personal communication device:

(1) necessary to implement an individualized education program, a plan created under Section 504, Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. Section 794), or a similar program or plan;

(2) by a student with a documented need based on a directive from a qualified physician; or

(3) necessary to comply with a health or safety requirement imposed by law or as part of the district's or school's safety protocols.

(d) In this section, "personal communication device" means a telephone, cell phone such as a smartphone or flip phone, tablet, smartwatch, radio device, paging device, or any other electronic device capable of telecommunication or digital communication. The term does not include an electronic device provided to a student by a school district or open-enrollment charter school.

(e) The agency shall develop and publish on the agency's Internet website model language for the policy required under this section.

(f) This section does not apply to an adult education program operated under a charter granted under Subchapter G, Chapter 12.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7942A.0304 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7942A / Section 7942A.0304
§ 7942A.0304. ROAD STANDARDS AND REQUIREMENTS.
Status: in_force

(a) A road project must meet all applicable construction standards, zoning and subdivision requirements, and regulations of each municipality in whose corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction the road project is located.

(b) If a road project is not located in the corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality, the road project must meet all applicable construction standards, subdivision requirements, and regulations of each county in which the road project is located.

(c) If the state will maintain and operate the road, the Texas Transportation Commission must approve the plans and specifications of the road project.
Tex. Insurance Code § 2211.104 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 2211 / Section 2211.104
§ 2211.104. ADDITIONAL ASSESSMENT IN EVENT OF DEFICIT; PREMIUM SURCHARGE AUTHORIZED.
Status: in_force

(a) If the association incurs a deficit, the association, at the commissioner's direction, shall:

(1) request the issuance of public securities as authorized by Subchapter E; or

(2) assess participating insurers in accordance with this section.

(b) As reimbursement for assessments paid under this section or service fees paid under Section 2211.209, each insurer may charge a premium surcharge on every property insurance policy insuring property in this state that the insurer issues, the effective date of which is within the three-year period beginning on the 90th day after the date of the assessment or the 90th day after the date the service fee under Section 2211.209 is paid, as applicable.

(c) The insurer shall compute the amount of the surcharge under Subsection (b) as a uniform percentage of the premium on each policy described by Subsection (b). The percentage must be equal to one-third of the ratio of the amount of the participating insurer's assessment or service fee payment to the amount of the insurer's direct earned premiums, as reported to the department in the insurer's financial statement for the calendar year preceding the year in which the assessment or service fee payment is made so that, over the three-year period, the aggregate of all surcharges by the insurer under this section is at least equal to the amount of the assessment or service fee payment.

(d) The amount of any assessment paid and surcharged under this section may be carried by the insurer as an admitted asset of the insurer for all purposes, including exhibition in annual statements under Section 862.001, until collected.

(e) The commissioner shall adopt rules and procedures as necessary to implement this section.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 9034.152 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 9034 / Section 9034.152
§ 9034.152. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE TAX.
Status: in_force

(a) If authorized at an election held under Section 9034.151, the district may impose an operation and maintenance tax on taxable property in the district in accordance with Section 49.107, Water Code.

(b) The board shall determine the tax rate. The rate may not exceed the rate approved at the election.
Tex. Natural Resources Code § 71.005 — TX Code / Code nr / Chapter 71 / Section 71.005
§ 71.005. NOTICE OF INTENTION TO LEASE LAND.
Status: in_force

(a) After the governing body determines that it is advisable to lease land belonging to the political subdivision, it shall give notice of the intention to lease the land.

(b) The notice shall describe the land to be leased and designate the time and place at which the governing body will receive and consider bids for the lease.

(c) The notice shall be published once a week for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in the county and with general circulation in the county.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7803.110 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7803 / Section 7803.110
§ 7803.110.
Status: in_force

Sec. 7803.110. SETBACK LINES: RESOLUTION, NOTICE, AND HEARING. (a) The board may establish and maintain building setback lines along any waterway in the district for the purpose of promoting the public health, safety, and general welfare and accomplishing the purposes of Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution.

(b) Building setback lines may be established only after notice and hearing. The notice must be published in a newspaper of general circulation in Dallas County not earlier than the 60th day or later than the 15th day before the date of the hearing. Each affected landowner must be given actual notice by certified mail of the hearing.

(c) The board by resolution shall adopt building setback lines if, after the hearing is completed, the board finds that the establishment of building setback lines is for the public health, safety, and general welfare of the people in the district and for the accomplishment of the purposes of Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution. The resolution must contain a description of the area included in the building setback lines by field notes, a map or plat, or both. A certified copy of the resolution shall be filed for record immediately with the county clerk of Dallas County. On the filing of the resolution, all persons are charged with notice of the requirements of the resolution.

(d) The board may, on public hearing after notice as provided by Subsection (b), amend, supplement, or grant an exception to building setback lines as determined necessary.
Tex. Local Government Code § 54.003 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 54 / Section 54.003
§ 54.003. REMISSION OF FINE BY TYPE A GENERAL-LAW MUNICIPALITY.
Status: in_force

On a two-thirds vote of the members present, the governing body of a Type A general-law municipality may remit a fine or a penalty, or a part of a fine or penalty, imposed or incurred under law or under an ordinance or resolution adopted in accordance with law.
Tex. Agriculture Code § 201.121 — TX Code / Code ag / Chapter 201 / Section 201.121
§ 201.121. REGULATORY POWERS; PETITION FOR ADOPTION.
Status: in_force

(a) If petitioned by 50 or more eligible voters in the conservation district, the directors of a conservation district may propose an ordinance governing the use of land within the conservation district in the interest of conserving soil and soil resources and preventing and controlling soil erosion.

(b) An ordinance adopted under this subchapter may:

(1) require the carrying out of necessary engineering operations, including the construction of terraces, terrace outlets, check dams, dikes, ponds, ditches, and other necessary structures;

(2) require observance of particular methods of cultivation, including:

(A) contour cultivating, contour furrowing, lister furrowing, or strip cropping;

(B) planting, sowing, or seeding land with water-conserving and erosion-preventing plants, trees, or grasses; and

(C) forestations and reforestations;

(3) specify cropping programs and tillage practices to be observed;

(4) require the retirement from cultivation of highly erosive areas or of areas on which erosion may not be adequately controlled if cultivation is carried on; or

(5) provide other means, measures, operations, or programs that may assist conservation of soil resources or prevent or control soil erosion in the conservation district, having due regard for the legislative determinations made in Section 201.001 of this code.

(c) Land-use regulations must be uniform throughout the conservation district, except that the directors may classify land in the conservation district according to relevant factors, including soil type, degree of slope, degree of erosion threatened or existing, or cropping or tillage practices in use. The land-use regulations may vary with the type or class of land affected, but must be uniform as to all land within the type or class.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1021.207 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1021 / Section 1021.207
§ 1021.207. REFUNDING BONDS.
Status: in_force

(a) The board may, without an election, issue refunding bonds to refund outstanding indebtedness issued or assumed by the district.

(b) Refunding bonds may be:

(1) sold, with the proceeds of the refunding bonds applied to the payment of the outstanding indebtedness; or

(2) exchanged wholly or partly for not less than a similar principal amount of outstanding indebtedness.
Tex. Education Code § 54.634 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 54 / Section 54.634
§ 54.634. ESTABLISHMENT OF TRUST FUND; COLLEGE SAVINGS PLAN ACCOUNT.
Status: in_force

(a) The Texas tomorrow constitutional trust fund is created as a trust fund to be held with the comptroller. The fund consists of:

(1) state appropriations for purposes of the fund;

(2) money acquired from other governmental or private sources;

(3) money paid under prepaid tuition contracts; and

(4) the income from money deposited in the fund.

(b) The board shall administer the assets of the fund. The board is the trustee of the fund's assets.

(c) The board may:

(1) segregate contributions and payments to the fund into various accounts; and

(2) acquire, hold, manage, purchase, sell, assign, trade, transfer, and dispose of any security, evidence of indebtedness, or other investment in which the fund's assets may be invested.

(d) The Texas college savings plan account is created within the Texas tomorrow constitutional trust fund and is financed through administrative fees and service charges as authorized by Section 54.702(c).
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1114.251 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1114 / Section 1114.251
§ 1114.251. IMPOSITION OF AD VALOREM TAX.
Status: in_force

(a) The board may impose a tax on all property in the district subject to district taxation.

(b) The board may impose the tax to:

(1) pay the indebtedness issued or assumed by the district; and

(2) maintain and operate the district.
Tex. Finance Code § 345.078 — TX Code / Code fi / Chapter 345 / Section 345.078
§ 345.078. CONSOLIDATION OF CONTRACTS.
Status: in_force

(a) If a retail buyer purchases goods or services in a retail installment transaction from a retail seller from whom the buyer has previously purchased goods or services under one or more retail installment contracts and the amounts under those contracts have not been paid in full, the seller may consolidate the subsequent purchase with one or more of the contracts.

(b) If a purchase is consolidated with a retail installment contract under this section, the retail seller may prepare a written memorandum of the subsequent purchase instead of executing a retail installment contract for the purchase. Sections 345.051, 345.052, 345.053, 345.065, 345.066, and 345.067 do not apply to the memorandum. The seller shall deliver a copy of the memorandum to the retail buyer before the date on which the first installment under the consolidated contract is due.

(c) Each subsequent purchase that is consolidated with a retail installment contract is a separate retail installment contract under this chapter. The provisions of this chapter relating to a retail installment contract apply to the subsequent purchase except as provided by Subsection (b).
Tex. Government Code § 2165.104 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 2165 / Section 2165.104
§ 2165.104. SPACE USE STUDY; LIMITATION ON ALLOCATION OF SPACE.
Status: in_force

(a) The commission periodically shall study the space requirements of state agencies that occupy space under the commission's charge and control, including state-owned space and space leased from other sources.

(b) The commission shall use the results of the study to:

(1) determine the optimal amount of space required for various state agency uses; and

(2) allocate space to state agencies in the best and most efficient manner possible.

(c) The commission shall adopt rules consistent with private sector standards and industry best practices to govern the allocation of space. The commission shall exempt from the space allocation rules adopted under this subsection:

(1) an agency site at which there are so few employees that it is not practical to apply the rules adopted under this subsection to that site; and

(2) an agency site at which it is not practical to apply the rules adopted under this subsection because of the site's type of space or use of space.

(d) The commission shall conduct a study under this section at least once each state fiscal biennium.

(e) This section does not apply to space that is not occupied by a state agency as defined by Section 2151.002.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3001.119 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3001 / Section 3001.119
§ 3001.119. HEARINGS.
Status: in_force

(a) The board may conduct hearings and take evidence on any matter before the board.

(b) The board may appoint a hearings examiner to conduct a hearing called by the board. The hearings examiner may be a district employee or director.
Tex. Natural Resources Code § 161.131 — TX Code / Code nr / Chapter 161 / Section 161.131
§ 161.131. MINORITY-OWNED BUSINESSES.
Status: repealed

(a) The board shall make a good faith effort to award to minority-owned businesses:

(1) contracts relating to the issuance of bonds by the board under this chapter in the amount of at least 20 percent of the total costs of issuing those bonds; and

(2) contracts for the items to be financed by bonds issued by the board in the amount of at least 20 percent of the proceeds of those bonds.

(b) Repealed by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1083, Sec. 25(134), eff. June 17, 2011.

(c) In this section:

(1) "Minority-owned business" means a business entity at least 51 percent of which is owned by members of a minority group or, in the case of a corporation, at least 51 percent of the shares of which are owned by members of a minority group, and that is managed and controlled by members of a minority group in its daily operations.

(2) "Minority group" includes:

(A) African Americans;

(B) American Indians;

(C) Asian Americans; and

(D) Mexican Americans and other Americans of Hispanic origin.
Tex. Election Code § 253.176 — TX Code / Code el / Chapter 253 / Section 253.176
§ 253.176. CIVIL PENALTY.
Status: repealed

(a) The commission may impose a civil penalty against a person as provided by this subchapter only after a formal hearing as provided by Subchapter E, Chapter 571, Government Code.

(b) The commission shall base the amount of the penalty on:

(1) the seriousness of the violation;

(2) the history of previous violations;

(3) the amount necessary to deter future violations; and

(4) any other matter that justice may require.

(c) Repealed by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 384 (H.B. 3233), Sec. 17(7), eff. June 2, 2019.
Tex. Government Code § 24.565 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 24 / Section 24.565
§ 24.565.
Status: in_force

Sec. 24.565. 421ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT (CALDWELL COUNTY). The 421st Judicial District is composed of Caldwell County.
Tex. Agriculture Code § 13.036 — TX Code / Code ag / Chapter 13 / Section 13.036
§ 13.036. FALSE REPRESENTATION OF COMMODITY QUANTITY.
Status: in_force

A person violates this chapter if the person or the person's servant or agent:

(1) sells or offers or exposes for sale a quantity of a commodity or service that is less than the quantity the person represents; or

(2) as a buyer furnishing the weight or measure of a commodity or service by which the amount of the commodity or service is determined, takes or attempts to take more than the quantity the person represents.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1095.156 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1095 / Section 1095.156
§ 1095.156. ANNUAL AUDIT.
Status: in_force

The board annually shall have an audit made of the district's financial condition.