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Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7944A.0401 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7944A / Section 7944A.0401
§ 7944A.0401. ELECTIONS REGARDING TAXES OR BONDS.
Status: in_force

(a) The district may issue, without an election, bonds and other obligations secured by:

(1) revenue other than ad valorem taxes; or

(2) contract payments described by Section 7944A.0403.

(b) The district must hold an election in the manner provided by Chapters 49 and 54, Water Code, to obtain voter approval before the district may impose an ad valorem tax or issue bonds payable from ad valorem taxes.

(c) The district may not issue bonds payable from ad valorem taxes to finance a road project unless 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. Transportation Code § 228.012 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 228 / Section 228.012
§ 228.012. PROJECT SUBACCOUNTS.
Status: repealed

(a) The department shall create a separate account in the state highway fund to hold payments received by the department under a comprehensive development agreement and the surplus revenue of a toll project or system. The department shall create subaccounts in the account for each project, system, or region. Interest earned on money in a subaccount shall be deposited to the credit of that subaccount.

(b) The department shall hold money in a subaccount in trust for the benefit of the region in which a project or system is located and may assign the responsibility for allocating money in a subaccount to a metropolitan planning organization in which the region is located for projects approved by the department. At the time the project is approved by the department money shall be allocated and distributed to projects authorized by Section 228.0055 or Section 228.006, as applicable.

(c) Repealed by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 856 (S.B. 800), Sec. 25(18), eff. September 1, 2021.

(d) The commission or the department may not:

(1) revise the formula as provided in the department's unified transportation program or a successor document in a manner that results in a decrease of a department district's allocation because of the deposit of a payment into a project subaccount; or

(2) take any other action that would reduce funding allocated to a department district because of the deposit of a payment into a project subaccount.
Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 18B.105 — TX Code / Code cr / Chapter 18B / Section 18B.105
§ 18B.105. SEALING RECORDS OF APPLICATION AND ORDER.
Status: in_force

A district court shall seal an application and order granted under this chapter.
Tex. Tax Code § 25.16 — TX Code / Code tx / Chapter 25 / Section 25.16
§ 25.16. PROPERTY LOSING EXEMPTION DURING TAX YEAR.
Status: in_force

(a) If an exemption applicable to a property on January 1 terminates during the tax year, the property shall be listed in the name of the person who owns or acquires the property on the date applicability of the exemption terminates.

(b) The chief appraiser shall make an entry on the appraisal records showing that taxes on the property are to be calculated as provided by Section 26.10 of this code and showing the date on which exemption terminated.
Tex. Family Code § 2.010 — TX Code / Code fa / Chapter 2 / Section 2.010
§ 2.010. AIDS INFORMATION; POSTING ON INTERNET.
Status: in_force

The Department of State Health Services shall prepare and make available to the public on its Internet website information about acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The information must be designed to inform an applicant for a marriage license about:

(1) the incidence and mode of transmission of AIDS and HIV;

(2) the local availability of medical procedures, including voluntary testing, designed to show or help show whether a person has AIDS or HIV infection, antibodies to HIV, or infection with any other probable causative agent of AIDS; and

(3) available and appropriate counseling services regarding AIDS and HIV infection.
Tex. Insurance Code § 843.345 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 843 / Section 843.345
§ 843.345. EXCEPTION.
Status: in_force

This subchapter does not apply to a capitated payment required to be made to a physician or provider under an agreement to provide health care services.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1102.253 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1102 / Section 1102.253
§ 1102.253. TAX ASSESSOR-COLLECTOR.
Status: in_force

The board may provide for the appointment of a tax assessor-collector for the district or may contract for the assessment and collection of taxes as provided by the Tax Code.
Tex. Election Code § 251.007 — TX Code / Code el / Chapter 251 / Section 251.007
§ 251.007. TIMELINESS OF ACTION BY MAIL.
Status: in_force

When this title requires a notice, report, or other document or paper to be delivered, submitted, or filed within a specified period or before a specified deadline, a delivery, submission, or filing by first-class United States mail or common or contract carrier is timely, except as otherwise provided by this title, if:

(1) it is properly addressed with postage or handling charges prepaid; and

(2) it bears a post office cancellation mark or a receipt mark of a common or contract carrier indicating a time within the period or before the deadline, or if the person required to take the action furnishes satisfactory proof that it was deposited in the mail or with a common or contract carrier within the period or before the deadline.
Tex. Government Code § 546.0505 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 546 / Section 546.0505
§ 546.0505. QUARTERLY REPORT.
Status: in_force

The commission shall submit to the governor, the lieutenant governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, the Legislative Budget Board, and each standing legislative committee with primary jurisdiction over Medicaid a semiannual report containing, for the preceding six-month period, the following information and data related to access to care for recipients receiving benefits under the medically dependent children (MDCP) waiver program:

(1) enrollment in the Medicaid buy-in for children program implemented under Section 532.0353;

(2) requests relating to interest list placements under Section 546.0455;

(3) use of the Medicaid escalation help line established under Subchapter R, Chapter 540, if the help line was operational during the applicable six-month period;

(4) use of, requests for, and outcomes of the external medical review procedure established under Section 532.0404; and

(5) complaints relating to the medically dependent children (MDCP) waiver program, categorized by disposition.
Tex. Tax Code § 151.151 — TX Code / Code tx / Chapter 151 / Section 151.151
§ 151.151. RESALE CERTIFICATE.
Status: in_force

A purchaser may give a resale certificate for the acquisition of a taxable item if the purchaser intends to sell, lease, or rent it in the regular course of business or transfer it as an integral part of a taxable service performed in the regular course of business.
Tex. Transportation Code § 451.151 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 451 / Section 451.151
§ 451.151.
Status: in_force

Sec. 451.151. STATION OR TERMINAL COMPLEX: SYSTEM PLAN. (a) An authority may not acquire an interest in real property for a station or terminal complex unless the station or terminal complex is included in the transit authority system in a comprehensive transit plan approved by a resolution of the board. A mass transit facility of an authority is not a station or terminal complex under this subchapter unless the facility is included in the authority's comprehensive transit plan under this section.

(b) A station or terminal complex may not be included in a transit authority system unless the board first finds that the station or complex:

(1) will encourage and provide for efficient and economical mass transit;

(2) will facilitate access to mass transit and provide for other mass transit purposes;

(3) will reduce vehicular congestion and air pollution in the metropolitan area; and

(4) is reasonably essential to the successful operation of the transit authority system.

(c) On making a finding under Subsection (b), the board may amend the authority's comprehensive transit plan to include a station or terminal complex.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8224.052 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8224 / Section 8224.052
§ 8224.052. ROAD PROJECTS.
Status: in_force

(a) Under Section 52, Article III, Texas Constitution, the district may finance, construct, or acquire a road project as provided by this section.

(b) The district shall employ or contract with a licensed engineer to certify whether a proposed road project meets the criteria for a thoroughfare, arterial, or collector road of:

(1) a county in whose jurisdiction the proposed road project is located; or

(2) a municipality in whose corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction the proposed road project is located.

(c) The district may finance, construct, or acquire a road that has been certified by the licensed engineer as a thoroughfare, arterial, or collector road, or any improvements in aid of the road.

(d) A road project must meet all applicable standards, regulations, ordinances, or orders of:

(1) each municipality in whose corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction the road project is located; and

(2) each county in which the road project is located if the road project is not located in the corporate limits of a municipality.

(e) The district may, with the consent of the municipality or county, convey a completed road project to:

(1) a municipality in whose corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction the road project is located; or

(2) a county in which the road project is located.
Tex. Water Code § 51.430 — TX Code / Code wa / Chapter 51 / Section 51.430
§ 51.430. CERTIFIED COPY OF DECREE.
Status: in_force

(a) After the judgment of the district court is entered, the clerk of the court shall make a certified copy of the decree which shall be filed with the comptroller. The comptroller shall record the decree in the book kept for that purpose.

(b) The certified copy of the decree or a certified copy of the comptroller's record of the decree shall be received in evidence in any suit which may affect the validity of the organization of the district or the validity of the bonds or the contract and shall be conclusive evidence of validity.
Tex. Insurance Code § 1575.173 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 1575 / Section 1575.173
§ 1575.173. OUT-OF-NETWORK DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING PROVIDER OR LABORATORY SERVICE PROVIDER PAYMENTS.
Status: in_force

(a) In this section, "diagnostic imaging provider" and "laboratory service provider" have the meanings assigned by Section 1467.001.

(b) Except as provided by Subsection (d), the administrator of a managed care plan provided under the group program shall pay for a covered health care or medical service performed for or a covered supply related to that service provided to an enrollee by an out-of-network provider who is a diagnostic imaging provider or laboratory service provider at the usual and customary rate or at an agreed rate if the provider performed the service in connection with a health care or medical service performed by a participating provider. The administrator shall make a payment required by this subsection directly to the provider not later than, as applicable:

(1) the 30th day after the date the administrator receives an electronic claim for those services that includes all information necessary for the administrator to pay the claim; or

(2) the 45th day after the date the administrator receives a nonelectronic claim for those services that includes all information necessary for the administrator to pay the claim.

(c) Except as provided by Subsection (d), an out-of-network provider who is a diagnostic imaging provider or laboratory service provider or a person asserting a claim as an agent or assignee of the provider may not bill an enrollee receiving a health care or medical service or supply described by Subsection (b) in, and the enrollee does not have financial responsibility for, an amount greater than an applicable copayment, coinsurance, and deductible under the enrollee's managed care plan that:

(1) is based on:

(A) the amount initially determined payable by the administrator; or

(B) if applicable, the modified amount as determined under the administrator's internal appeal process; and

(2) is not based on any additional amount determined to be owed to the provider under Chapter 1467.

(d) This section does not apply to a nonemergency health care or medical service:

(1) that an enrollee elects to receive in writing in advance of the service with respect to each out-of-network provider providing the service; and

(2) for which an out-of-network provider, before providing the service, provides a complete written disclosure to the enrollee that:

(A) explains that the provider does not have a contract with the enrollee's managed care plan;

(B) discloses projected amounts for which the enrollee may be responsible; and

(C) discloses the circumstances under which the enrollee would be responsible for those amounts.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 98.110 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 98 / Section 98.110
§ 98.110. DISCLOSURE AMONG CERTAIN AGENCIES.
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the department may disclose information reported by health care facilities under Section 98.103 or 98.1045 to other programs within the department, to the commission, to other health and human services agencies, as defined by Section 521.0001, Government Code, and to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or any other agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, for public health research or analysis purposes only, provided that the research or analysis relates to health care-associated infections or preventable adverse events. The privilege and confidentiality provisions contained in this chapter apply to such disclosures.

(b) If the executive commissioner designates an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services to receive reports of health care-associated infections or preventable adverse events, that agency may use the information submitted for purposes allowed by federal law.
Tex. Tax Code § 351.0025 — TX Code / Code tx / Chapter 351 / Section 351.0025
§ 351.0025. EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION.
Status: in_force

(a) A municipality with a population of less than 35,000 by ordinance may impose the tax authorized under Section 351.002 in the municipality's extraterritorial jurisdiction.

(b) The municipality may not impose a tax under this section if as a result of the adoption the combined rate of state, county, and municipal hotel occupancy taxes in the extraterritorial jurisdiction exceeds 15 percent of the price paid for a room in a hotel.
Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 42A.506 — TX Code / Code cr / Chapter 42A / Section 42A.506
§ 42A.506. COMMUNITY SUPERVISION FOR DEFENDANT WITH MENTAL IMPAIRMENT.
Status: in_force

If the judge places a defendant on community supervision and the defendant is determined to be a person with mental illness or a person with an intellectual disability, as provided by Article 16.22 or Chapter 46B or in a psychological evaluation conducted under Article 42A.253(a)(6), the judge may require the defendant as a condition of community supervision to submit to outpatient or inpatient mental health or intellectual disability treatment if:

(1) the defendant's:

(A) mental impairment is chronic in nature; or

(B) ability to function independently will continue to deteriorate if the defendant does not receive mental health or intellectual disability services; and

(2) the judge determines, in consultation with a local mental health or intellectual disability services provider, that mental health or intellectual disability services, as appropriate, are available for the defendant through:

(A) the Department of State Health Services or the Department of Aging and Disability Services under Section 534.053, Health and Safety Code; or

(B) another mental health or intellectual disability services provider.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7924.003 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7924 / Section 7924.003
§ 7924.003. CONFIRMATION AND DIRECTORS' ELECTION REQUIRED.
Status: in_force

The temporary directors shall hold an election to confirm the creation of the district and to elect five permanent directors as provided by Section 49.102, Water Code.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3960.202 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3960 / Section 3960.202
§ 3960.202. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE TAX.
Status: in_force

(a) If authorized by a majority of the district voters voting at an election held in accordance with Section 3960.201, the district may impose an operation and maintenance tax on taxable property in the district in accordance with Section 49.107, Water Code, for any district purpose, including to:

(1) maintain and operate the district;

(2) construct or acquire improvements; or

(3) provide a service.

(b) The board shall determine the tax rate. The rate may not exceed the rate approved at the election.
Tex. Local Government Code § 117.023 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 117 / Section 117.023
§ 117.023. SELECTION OF DEPOSITORY.
Status: in_force

(a) At the meeting at which banks are to be selected to serve as the depository for registry funds held by the county clerk and the district clerk, the commissioners court shall enter the applications in the minutes of the court and select a depository.

(b) After a depository is selected, the commissioners court shall return the certified checks of the applicants that were not selected. The commissioners court shall return the check of the selected applicant only after the applicant files a bond that is approved by the commissioners court.

(c) The conflict of interests provisions of Section 131.903 apply to the selection of the depository.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8031.0402 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8031 / Section 8031.0402
§ 8031.0402. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE TAX.
Status: in_force

(a) If authorized at an election held under Section 8031.0401, 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. Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 15.082 — TX Code / Code cp / Chapter 15 / Section 15.082
§ 15.082.
Status: in_force

Sec. 15.082. VENUE: GENERAL RULE. Except as otherwise provided by this subchapter or by any other law, a suit in justice court shall be brought in the county and precinct in which one or more defendants reside.
Tex. Water Code § 62.318 — TX Code / Code wa / Chapter 62 / Section 62.318
§ 62.318. LAW GOVERNING DISTRICT.
Status: in_force

(a) The only changes made in the organization and operation of an annexing district which annexes an adjacent county are those contained in this subchapter.

(b) Each district annexing an adjacent county shall continue after the annexation to be governed by and subject to all of the laws applicable to the annexing district at the time of annexation.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7892.0102 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7892 / Section 7892.0102
§ 7892.0102. NATURE OF DISTRICT.
Status: in_force

The district is a municipal utility district created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 439.016 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 439 / Section 439.016
§ 439.016. MISREPRESENTATION; CRIMINAL PENALTY.
Status: in_force

(a) A person commits an offense if, in connection with advertising or promoting the sale of DMSO, the person knowingly or intentionally represents DMSO as a cure for any human disease, ailment, or disorder.

(b) An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor.
Tex. Natural Resources Code § 161.311 — TX Code / Code nr / Chapter 161 / Section 161.311
§ 161.311. BOARD JUDGE OF FORFEITURE.
Status: in_force

The board is the sole judge of forfeiture of any purchase contract under this chapter and any person availing himself of the provisions of this chapter by so doing agrees to abide by this chapter.
Tex. Property Code § 5.151 — TX Code / Code pr / Chapter 5 / Section 5.151
§ 5.151. DISCLOSURE IN OFFER TO PURCHASE MINERAL INTEREST.
Status: in_force

(a) A person who mails to the owner of a mineral or royalty interest an offer to purchase only the mineral or royalty interest, it being understood that for the purpose of this section the taking of an oil, gas, or mineral lease shall not be deemed a purchase of a mineral or royalty interest, and encloses an instrument of conveyance of only the mineral or royalty interest and a draft or other instrument, as defined in Section 3.104, Business & Commerce Code, providing for payment for that interest shall include in the offer a conspicuous statement printed in a type style that is approximately the same size as 14-point type style or larger and is in substantially the following form:

BY EXECUTING AND DELIVERING THIS INSTRUMENT YOU ARE SELLING ALL OR A PORTION OF YOUR MINERAL OR ROYALTY INTEREST IN (DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY BEING CONVEYED).

(b) A person who conveys a mineral or royalty interest as provided by Subsection (a) may bring suit against the purchaser of the interest if:

(1) the purchaser did not give the notice required by Subsection (a); and

(2) the person has given 30 days' written notice to the purchaser that a suit will be filed unless the matter is otherwise resolved.

(c) A plaintiff who prevails in a suit under Subsection (b) may recover from the initial purchaser of the mineral or royalty interest the greater of:

(1) $100; or

(2) an amount up to the difference between the amount paid by the purchaser for the mineral or royalty interest and the fair market value of the mineral or royalty interest at the time of the sale.

(d) The prevailing party in a suit under Subsection (b) may recover:

(1) court costs; and

(2) reasonable attorney's fees.

(e) A person must bring a suit under Subsection (b) not later than the second anniversary of the date the person executed the conveyance.

(f) The remedy provided under this section shall be in addition to any other remedies existing under law, excluding rescission or other remedies that would make the conveyance of the mineral or royalty interest void or of no force and effect.
Tex. Insurance Code § 2651.302 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 2651 / Section 2651.302
§ 2651.302. LICENSE APPLICATION AFTER DENIAL, REFUSAL, OR REVOCATION.
Status: in_force

(a) An applicant whose license application has been denied or refused or a license holder whose license has been revoked under this subchapter may not file another application for a license as a title insurance agent or direct operation before the first anniversary of:

(1) the effective date of the denial, refusal, or revocation; or

(2) the date of a final court order affirming the denial, refusal, or revocation if judicial review is sought.

(b) A license application filed after the time required by this section may be denied by the department unless the applicant shows good cause why the denial, refusal, or revocation should not be a bar to the issuance of a license.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3918.0109 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3918 / Section 3918.0109
§ 3918.0109. CONSTRUCTION OF CHAPTER.
Status: in_force

This chapter shall be liberally construed in conformity with the findings and purposes stated in this chapter.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1079.112 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1079 / Section 1079.112
§ 1079.112. OPERATING AND MANAGEMENT CONTRACTS.
Status: in_force

The board may enter into an operating or management contract relating to a hospital facility for the district.