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Tex. Government Code § 411.0901 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 411 / Section 411.0901
§ 411.0901.
Status: in_force

Sec. 411.0901. ACCESS TO CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORD INFORMATION: TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY. (a) The Texas Education Agency is entitled to obtain criminal history record information as provided by Subsection (a-1) about a person who:

(1) is employed or is an applicant for employment by a school district or open-enrollment charter school;

(2) is employed or is an applicant for employment by a shared services arrangement, if the employee's or applicant's duties are or will be performed on school property or at another location where students are regularly present;

(3) is employed or is an applicant for employment by an entity that contracts or subcontracts with a school district, open-enrollment charter school, or shared services arrangement, if the applicant or employee has or will have:

(A) continuing duties related to the contracted or subcontracted services; and

(B) direct contact with students;

(4) is employed or is an applicant for employment by the Texas Education Agency; or

(5) provides services as a tutor on behalf of a service provider that offers accelerated or supplemental instruction under Section 28.0211, Education Code, if the tutor has or will have continuing duties related to the services provided and has or will have direct contact with students.

(a-1) Subject to Section 411.087 and consistent with the public policy of this state, the Texas Education Agency is entitled to:

(1) obtain through the Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal history record information maintained or indexed by that bureau that pertains to a person described by Subsection (a); and

(2) obtain from the department or any other criminal justice agency in this state criminal history record information maintained by the department or that criminal justice agency that relates to a person described by Subsection (a).

(b) The Texas Education Agency may not release or disclose to any person criminal history record information obtained from the Federal Bureau of Investigation under Subsection (a-1)(1). Criminal history record information obtained by the agency under Subsection (a-1)(2) in the original form or any subsequent form:

(1) may be used only for a purpose authorized by the Education Code;

(2) may not be released to any person except:

(A) the person who is the subject of the information;

(B) the State Board for Educator Certification;

(C) a local or regional educational entity as provided by Section 411.097;

(D) by court order; or

(E) as provided by Subsection (c); and

(3) is not subject to disclosure as provided by Chapter 552.

(c) The Texas Education Agency is not prohibited from disclosing criminal history record information obtained under Subsection (a-1)(2) in a criminal proceeding or in a hearing conducted by the Texas Education Agency or the State Board for Educator Certification.

(d) The Texas Education Agency shall destroy criminal history record information that is obtained under this section after the information is used for its authorized purpose.
Tex. Transportation Code § 396.024 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 396 / Section 396.024
§ 396.024. PENALTY.
Status: in_force

(a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly violates Section 396.021 or 396.022.

(b) An offense under this section is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than $100 or more than $500.

(c) Each day a violation continues is a separate offense.
Tex. Utilities Code § 33.051 — TX Code / Code ut / Chapter 33 / Section 33.051
§ 33.051. APPEAL BY PARTY.
Status: in_force

A party to a rate proceeding before a municipality's governing body may appeal the governing body's decision to the commission.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 13.040 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 13 / Section 13.040
§ 13.040. EFFECT OF INDIGENT HEALTH CARE AND TREATMENT ACT.
Status: in_force

If an indigent or nonindigent public patient is eligible for health care assistance from a county hospital or public hospital under Chapter 61 (Indigent Health Care and Treatment Act), the state is entitled to reimbursement from that hospital for the treatment and support of the patient to the extent prescribed by that chapter.
Tex. Occupations Code § 351.456 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 351 / Section 351.456
§ 351.456. PRACTICE PROHIBITED DURING LICENSE SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION.
Status: in_force

A person may not practice optometry or therapeutic optometry while the person's license is suspended or revoked.
Tex. Occupations Code § 171.001 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 171 / Section 171.001
§ 171.001. PURPOSE.
Status: in_force

In order to strengthen access to health care, and in recognition of the advances in the delivery of health care, the member states of the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact have allied in common purpose to develop a comprehensive process that complements the existing licensing and regulatory authority of state medical boards and provides a streamlined process that allows physicians to become licensed in multiple states, thereby enhancing the portability of a medical license and ensuring the safety of patients. The compact creates another pathway for licensure and does not otherwise change a state's existing medical practice act. The compact also adopts the prevailing standard for licensure and affirms that the practice of medicine occurs where the patient is located at the time of the physician-patient encounter, and therefore, requires the physician to be under the jurisdiction of the state medical board where the patient is located. State medical boards that participate in the compact retain the jurisdiction to impose an adverse action against a license to practice medicine in that state issued to a physician through the procedures in the compact.
Tex. Government Code § 479.0102 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 479 / Section 479.0102
§ 479.0102. DEPOSIT OF MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY TAX REVENUE.
Status: in_force

(a) Each endorsing municipality or endorsing county shall remit to the comptroller and the comptroller shall deposit into a trust fund created by the comptroller, at the direction of the office, and designated as the motor sports racing trust fund for the motor sports racing event the amount of the municipality's or county's hotel occupancy tax revenue determined under Section 479.0052(a)(4) or (5), less any amount of the revenue that the municipality or county determines is necessary to meet the obligations of the municipality or county.

(b) The comptroller, at the direction of the office, shall retain the amount of sales and use tax revenue and mixed beverage tax revenue determined under Section 479.0052(a)(2) or (3) from the amounts otherwise required to be sent to the municipality under Sections 321.502 and 183.051(b), Tax Code, or to the county under Sections 323.502 and 183.051(b), Tax Code, less any amount of the revenue that the municipality or county determines is necessary to meet the obligations of the municipality or county, and shall deposit the retained tax revenue to the trust fund.

(c) The comptroller shall begin retaining and depositing the municipal and county tax revenue with the first distribution of that tax revenue that occurs after the first day of the period described by Section 479.0052(a).

(d) The comptroller shall discontinue retaining the municipal and county tax revenue when the amount of the applicable tax revenue determined under Section 479.0052(a)(2) or (3) has been retained.
Tex. Transportation Code § 522.002 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 522 / Section 522.002
§ 522.002. CONSTRUCTION.
Status: in_force

This chapter is a remedial law that shall be liberally construed to promote the public health, safety, and welfare.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8027.0502 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8027 / Section 8027.0502
§ 8027.0502. TAXES FOR BONDS.
Status: in_force

At the time the district issues bonds payable wholly or partly from ad valorem taxes, the board shall provide for the annual imposition of a continuing direct ad valorem tax, without limit as to rate or amount, while all or part of the bonds are outstanding as required and in the manner provided by Sections 54.601 and 54.602, Water Code.
Tex. Business & Commerce Code § 2002.005 — TX Code / Code bc / Chapter 2002 / Section 2002.005
§ 2002.005. CRIMINAL PENALTIES.
Status: in_force

(a) A person commits an offense if the person knowingly violates this chapter.

(b) A person who is not the owner of a liquefied petroleum gas container commits an offense if the person:

(1) except as provided by Section 2002.004, without written authorization of the owner of the container sells, fills, refills, delivers or permits to be delivered, or uses the container for any purpose;

(2) obtains a written request under Section 2002.004 through misrepresentation; or

(3) defaces, removes, or conceals a name, mark, initial, or device on the container without the written consent of the owner of the container.

(c) An offense under this section is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than $25 and not more than $200.
Tex. Transportation Code § 547.609 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 547 / Section 547.609
§ 547.609. REQUIRED LABEL FOR SUNSCREENING DEVICES.
Status: in_force

A sunscreening device must have a label that:

(1) is legible;

(2) contains information required by the department on light transmission and luminous reflectance of the device;

(3) if the device is placed on or attached to a windshield or a side or rear window, states that the light transmission of the device is consistent with Section 547.613(b)(1) or (2), as applicable; and

(4) is permanently installed between the material and the surface to which the material is applied.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7924.105 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7924 / Section 7924.105
§ 7924.105. COMPLIANCE WITH MUNICIPAL CONSENT ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION.
Status: in_force

The district shall comply with all applicable requirements of any ordinance or resolution that is adopted under Section 54.016 or 54.0165, Water Code, and that consents to the creation of the district or to the inclusion of land in the district.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1107.061 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1107 / Section 1107.061
§ 1107.061. RECORDS OF PROCEEDINGS.
Status: in_force

(a) The board shall require the secretary to keep suitable records of all proceedings of each board meeting.

(b) After each meeting:

(1) the manager presiding at the meeting shall read and sign the record; and

(2) the secretary shall attest the record.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7906.106 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7906 / Section 7906.106
§ 7906.106. DIVISION OF DISTRICT.
Status: in_force

(a) The district may be divided into two or more new districts only if the district:

(1) has no outstanding bonded debt; and

(2) is not imposing ad valorem taxes.

(b) This chapter applies to any new district created by the division of the district, and a new district has all the powers and duties of the district.

(c) Any new district created by the division of the district may not, at the time the new district is created, contain any land outside the area described by Section 2 of the Act creating this chapter.

(d) The board, on its own motion or on receipt of a petition signed by the owner or owners of a majority of the assessed value of the real property in the district, may adopt an order dividing the district.

(e) The board may adopt an order dividing the district before or after the date the board holds an election under Section 7906.003 to confirm the creation of the district and before or after an election under Section 7906.151 to authorize the issuance of bonds.

(f) An order dividing the district must:

(1) name each new district;

(2) include the metes and bounds description of the territory of each new district;

(3) appoint temporary directors for each new district; and

(4) provide for the division of assets and liabilities between or among the new districts.

(g) On or before the 30th day after the date of adoption of an order dividing the district, the district shall file the order with the commission and record the order in the real property records of each county in which the district is located.

(h) Any new district created by the division of the district shall hold a confirmation and directors' election as required by Section 7906.003.

(i) Any new district created by the division of the district must hold an election as required by this chapter to obtain voter approval before the district may impose a maintenance tax or issue bonds payable wholly or partly from ad valorem taxes.

(j) If the creation of the new district is confirmed, the new district shall provide the election date and results to the commission.
Tex. Alcoholic Beverage Code § 61.10 — TX Code / Code al / Chapter 61 / Section 61.10
§ 61.10. REPLACEMENT OF LICENSE.
Status: in_force

If a license is mutilated or destroyed, the commission or administrator may issue another license as a replacement in a manner acceptable to the commission or administrator.
Tex. Family Code § 262.014 — TX Code / Code fa / Chapter 262 / Section 262.014
§ 262.014. DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN EVIDENCE.
Status: in_force

On the request of the attorney for a parent who is a party in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed under this chapter, or the attorney ad litem for the parent's child, the Department of Family and Protective Services shall, before the full adversary hearing, provide:

(1) the name of any person, excluding a department employee, whom the department will call as a witness to any of the allegations contained in the petition filed by the department;

(2) a copy of any offense report relating to the allegations contained in the petition filed by the department that will be used in court to refresh a witness's memory; and

(3) a copy of any photograph, video, or recording that will be presented as evidence.
Tex. Finance Code § 342.412 — TX Code / Code fi / Chapter 342 / Section 342.412
§ 342.412. ACTION UNDER SUBCHAPTER NOT SALE OF INSURANCE.
Status: in_force

Arranging for insurance or collecting an identifiable charge as authorized by this subchapter is not a sale of insurance.
Tex. Business & Commerce Code § 521.101 — TX Code / Code bc / Chapter 521 / Section 521.101
§ 521.101. APPLICATION FOR COURT ORDER TO DECLARE INDIVIDUAL A VICTIM OF IDENTITY THEFT.
Status: in_force

(a) A person who is injured by a violation of Section 521.051 or who has filed a criminal complaint alleging commission of an offense under Section 32.51, Penal Code, may file an application with a district court for the issuance of an order declaring that the person is a victim of identity theft.

(b) A person may file an application under this section regardless of whether the person is able to identify each person who allegedly transferred or used the person's identifying information in an unlawful manner.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8886.156 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8886 / Section 8886.156
§ 8886.156. AVAILABLE GROUNDWATER.
Status: in_force

The board shall determine the quantity of the groundwater available for production and use and the improvements, developments, and recharges that will be necessary for any groundwater reservoirs in the district.
Tex. Estates Code § 202.053 — TX Code / Code es / Chapter 202 / Section 202.053
§ 202.053. REQUIRED POSTING OF CITATION.
Status: in_force

Except in a proceeding in which citation is served by publication as provided by Section 202.052, citation in a proceeding to declare heirship must be posted in:

(1) the county in which the proceeding is commenced; and

(2) the county of the last residence of the decedent who is the subject of the proceeding.
Tex. Transportation Code § 24.002 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 24 / Section 24.002
§ 24.002. APPLICATION.
Status: in_force

This subchapter does not apply to an aircraft owned by and used exclusively in the service of the federal or state government.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7897.0502 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7897 / Section 7897.0502
§ 7897.0502. TAXES FOR BONDS.
Status: in_force

At the time the district issues bonds payable wholly or partly from ad valorem taxes, the board shall provide for the annual imposition of a continuing direct ad valorem tax, without limit as to rate or amount, while all or part of the bonds are outstanding as required and in the manner provided by Sections 54.601 and 54.602, Water Code.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1120.302 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1120 / Section 1120.302
§ 1120.302. NOTICE OF ELECTION.
Status: in_force

(a) The board shall give notice of an election under this subchapter by publishing a substantial copy of the election order in a newspaper with general circulation in the district once a week for two consecutive weeks.

(b) The first publication must appear not later than the 30th day before the date set for the election.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8320.055 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8320 / Section 8320.055
§ 8320.055. LIMITATION ON USE OF EMINENT DOMAIN.
Status: in_force

The district may not exercise the power of eminent domain outside the district to acquire a site or easement for a road project authorized by Section 8320.053.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3871.153 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3871 / Section 3871.153
§ 3871.153. ASSESSMENTS; EXEMPTION.
Status: in_force

(a) The district may impose an assessment on property in the district, including an assessment on commercial, industrial, or office property, only in the manner provided by Subchapter A, Chapter 372, Local Government Code, or Subchapter F, Chapter 375, Local Government Code, for a municipality, county, or public improvement district, according to the benefit received by the property.

(b) An assessment on property must be for the limited purpose of providing capital funding for:

(1) public water and wastewater facilities;

(2) drainage and storm-water facilities;

(3) streets and alleys; and

(4) any authorized purpose under Chapter 372, Local Government Code.

(c) An assessment, a reassessment, or an assessment resulting from an addition to or correction of the assessment roll 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; and

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

(d) A lien of an assessment against property under this chapter runs with the land, and the portion of an assessment payment obligation that has not yet come due is not eliminated by the foreclosure of an ad valorem tax lien. Any purchaser of property in a foreclosure of an ad valorem tax lien takes the property subject to the assessment payment obligations that have not yet come due and to the lien and terms of payment under the applicable assessment ordinance or order.

(e) 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.

(f) The district shall file notice of any tax or assessment imposed by the district with the county clerk of Dallas County and post the notice on the district's Internet website.
Tex. Transportation Code § 54.104 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 54 / Section 54.104
§ 54.104. AUTHORITY OF BOARD TO ISSUE OBLIGATIONS.
Status: in_force

(a) A board by resolution may issue in the name of the board, with the consent of the governing body of the municipality:

(1) obligations payable from revenue in the manner provided by this chapter to provide money for a port improvement or facility or to refund previously issued obligations;

(2) expense warrants drawn against the revenue of the board to pay expenses during the fiscal year of the board in which the warrants are issued; or

(3) certificates of participation in contractual obligations to pay money.

(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, a board may issue obligations only if the governing body of the municipality by ordinance approves the issuance.
Tex. Education Code § 61.9794 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 61 / Section 61.9794
§ 61.9794. ELIGIBLE INSTITUTION.
Status: in_force

(a) To qualify as an eligible institution under this subchapter, an institution must:

(1) be a public junior college or public technical institute;

(2) admit at least 50 students into a STEM program each academic year; and

(3) develop partnerships with business and industry to:

(A) identify local employment needs in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields; and

(B) provide part-time employment for students enrolled in a STEM program.

(b) To maintain eligibility, each year beginning with the third year following implementation of a scholarship program under this subchapter, an institution must demonstrate to the board that at least 70 percent of the institution's T-STEM Challenge Scholarship recipients, within twelve months of receipt of a scholarship, are:

(1) employed; or

(2) enrolled in courses leading to a certificate, associate, or baccalaureate degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) field.
Tex. Water Code § 60.341 — TX Code / Code wa / Chapter 60 / Section 60.341
§ 60.341. RATES, TOLLS, AND CHARGES.
Status: in_force

(a) Where bonds are payable wholly from revenues, the governing body shall fix and from time to time revise the rates, tolls, and charges from the sales and services rendered by the district, the revenues from which are pledged, to the end that the rates, tolls, and charges will yield sufficient money:

(1) to pay designated expenses of the district;

(2) to pay the principal of and interest on the bonds as the principal and interest mature; and

(3) to create and maintain funds as prescribed in the resolution authorizing or the trust indenture securing the bonds.

(b) Where the bonds are payable both from taxes and from revenues, the governing body shall fix and from time to time revise the rates, tolls, and charges for sales and services rendered by the district, to the extent pledged, which will be sufficient to assure compliance with the resolution authorizing the bonds or the trust indenture securing them.
Tex. Agriculture Code § 41.151 — TX Code / Code ag / Chapter 41 / Section 41.151
§ 41.151. DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

In this subchapter:

(1) "Beef products" means products produced in whole or in part from beef. The term does not include milk or products made from milk.

(2) "Council" means the Beef Promotion and Research Council of Texas.

(3) "Producer" means a person who owns or acquires ownership of cattle, except that a person is not a producer if the person's only share in the proceeds of a sale of cattle or beef is a sales commission, handling fee, or other service fee.
Tex. Utilities Code § 104.051 — TX Code / Code ut / Chapter 104 / Section 104.051
§ 104.051. ESTABLISHING OVERALL REVENUES.
Status: in_force

In establishing a gas utility's rates, the regulatory authority shall establish the utility's overall revenues at an amount that will permit the utility a reasonable opportunity to earn a reasonable return on the utility's invested capital used and useful in providing service to the public in excess of its reasonable and necessary operating expenses.
Tex. Tax Code § 154.054 — TX Code / Code tx / Chapter 154 / Section 154.054
§ 154.054. REDEMPTION AND DESTRUCTION OF STAMPS.
Status: in_force

(a) The comptroller may redeem unused cigarette tax stamps that were lawfully issued before a design, color, or denomination change.

(b) The comptroller may destroy stamps in the manner the comptroller considers best.