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Tex. Occupations Code § 1301.3542 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 1301 / Section 1301.3542
§ 1301.3542. CAREER AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR TRADESMAN PLUMBER-LIMITED LICENSE; INSTRUCTORS.
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding Section 1301.354, a person who successfully completes a coherent sequence of courses in the plumbing trade that are offered through a career and technology education program may apply for and take an examination for a license as a tradesman plumber-limited license holder. The board may not require the person to register as a plumber's apprentice, pay any fee, or comply with Section 1301.354 or any other requirement of this chapter that applies to a person's eligibility to apply for and take the examination.

(b) A student of any age enrolled in a high school or institution of higher education is eligible to take the sequence of courses described by Subsection (a) without registering as a plumber's apprentice, paying any registration fee to the board, or complying with Section 1301.354 or any other requirement of this chapter that applies to enrolling or participating in those courses.

(c) If an applicant described by Subsection (a) successfully passes the examination for a license as a tradesman plumber-limited license holder, the board shall issue the applicant the license.

(d) The board shall develop the courses described by Subsection (a). If the courses are to be offered at a high school, the courses must be approved by the State Board of Education.

(e) The courses must include an appropriate number of hours of classroom instruction and a practical component. The board may credit on-the-job training toward meeting the requirements under the practical component.

(f) A person may not provide instruction in a career and technology education program described by this section unless the person is licensed under this chapter as a master plumber, journeyman plumber, or plumbing inspector.

(g) A person described by Subsection (f) may provide the instruction in a full-time or part-time capacity as an employee, contractor, or volunteer of a high school or institution of higher education.

(h) The board may adopt rules necessary to implement this section, including procedures to verify a student's successful completion of the sequence of courses described by Subsection (a).

(i) In this section:

(1) "Career and technology education program" means a career and technology education program under Subchapter F, Chapter 29, Education Code, or similar program offered by an institution of higher education.

(2) "Institution of higher education" means an institution of higher education or a private or independent institution of higher education as those terms are defined by Section 61.003, Education Code.
Tex. Occupations Code § 1101.614 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 1101 / Section 1101.614
§ 1101.614. WAIVER OF RIGHTS.
Status: in_force

An aggrieved person who does not comply with this subchapter waives the person's rights under this subchapter.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8118.002 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8118 / Section 8118.002
§ 8118.002. NATURE AND PURPOSES OF DISTRICT.
Status: in_force

(a) The district is created to serve a public purpose and benefit.

(b) The district is created to accomplish the purposes of:

(1) a municipal utility district as provided by general law and Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution; and

(2) Section 52, Article III, Texas Constitution, that relate to the construction, acquisition, improvement, operation, or maintenance of macadamized, graveled, or paved roads, or improvements, including storm drainage, in aid of those roads.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8869.051 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8869 / Section 8869.051
§ 8869.051. COMPOSITION OF BOARD.
Status: in_force

The district is governed by a board of nine directors that consists of one at-large director and two directors from each county commissioners precinct.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8304.105 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8304 / Section 8304.105
§ 8304.105. 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 § 9060.153 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 9060 / Section 9060.153
§ 9060.153. COST OF RELOCATING OR ALTERING PROPERTY.
Status: in_force

(a) In this section, "sole expense" means the actual cost of relocating, raising, lowering, rerouting, changing the grade of, or altering the construction of a facility described by Subsection (b) in providing comparable replacement without enhancement of the facility, after deducting from that cost the net salvage value derived from the old facility.

(b) If the district's exercise of the power of eminent domain, power of relocation, or any other power granted by this chapter makes necessary relocating, raising, rerouting, changing the grade of, or altering the construction of a highway, railroad, electric transmission line, telephone or telegraph property or facility, or pipeline, the necessary action shall be accomplished at the sole expense of the district.
Tex. Education Code § 56.072 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 56 / Section 56.072
§ 56.072. PURPOSE.
Status: in_force

The purpose of this subchapter is to provide eligible, financially needy students with jobs, funded in part by the State of Texas, to enable those students to attend eligible institutions of higher education, public or private, in Texas.
Tex. Education Code § 22.005 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 22 / Section 22.005
§ 22.005. HEALTH CARE PLAN AND FUND.
Status: in_force

(a) The board of trustees of a school district may establish a health care plan for employees of the district and dependents of employees.

(b) In implementing the health care plan, the board shall establish a fund to pay, as authorized under the plan, all or part of the actual costs for hospital, surgical, medical, dental, or related health care incurred by employees of the district or any dependent whose participation in the program is being supported by deductions from the salary of an employee. Under the plan, the fund also may be used to pay the costs of administering the fund. The fund consists of money contributed by the school district and money deducted from salaries of employees for dependent or employee coverage. Money for the fund may not be deducted from the salary of a school district employee unless the employee authorizes the deduction in writing. The plan shall attempt to protect the school district against unanticipated catastrophic individual loss, or unexpectedly large aggregate loss, by securing individual stop-loss coverage, or aggregate stop-loss coverage, or both, from a commercial insurer.

(c) The board may amend or cancel the district's health care plan at any regular or special meeting of the board. If the plan is canceled, any valid claim against the fund for payment of health care costs resulting from illness or injury occurring during the time the plan was in effect shall be paid out of the fund. If the fund is insufficient to pay the claim, the costs shall be paid out of other available school district funds.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8002A.0301 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8002A / Section 8002A.0301
§ 8002A.0301. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES.
Status: in_force

The district has the powers and duties necessary to accomplish the purposes for which the district is created.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3908.153 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3908 / Section 3908.153
§ 3908.153. PETITION REQUIRED FOR FINANCING SERVICES AND IMPROVEMENTS WITH ASSESSMENTS.
Status: in_force

(a) The board may not finance a service or improvement project with assessments under this chapter unless a written petition requesting that service or improvement has been filed with the board.

(b) A petition filed under Subsection (a) must be signed by the owners of a majority of the assessed value of real property in the district subject to assessment according to the most recent certified tax appraisal roll for the county.
Tex. Government Code § 2054.354 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 2054 / Section 2054.354
§ 2054.354. STEERING COMMITTEE.
Status: in_force

(a) The steering committee for electronic occupational licensing transactions consists of a representative of each of the following, appointed by its governing body:

(1) each licensing entity listed by Section 2054.352(a); and

(2) the department.

(b) The governing body of a licensing entity described by Section 2054.352(c) may appoint a representative to the committee.

(c) A member of the committee serves at the will of the entity that appointed the member.

(d) The representative of the department is the presiding officer of the committee. The committee shall meet as prescribed by committee procedures or at the call of the presiding officer.

(e) The committee shall advise the department regarding the department's implementation of Section 2054.353.

(f) Chapter 2110 does not apply to the size, composition, or duration of the committee. Any reimbursement of the expenses of a member of the committee may be paid only from funds available to the governmental entity the member represents.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7996A.0106 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7996A / Section 7996A.0106
§ 7996A.0106. INITIAL DISTRICT TERRITORY.
Status: in_force

(a) The district is initially composed of the territory described by Section 2 of the Act enacting this chapter.

(b) The boundaries and field notes contained in Section 2 of the Act enacting this chapter form a closure. A mistake made in the field notes or in copying the field notes in the legislative process does not affect the district's:

(1) organization, existence, or validity;

(2) right to issue any type of bond for the purposes for which the district is created or to pay the principal of and interest on a bond;

(3) right to impose a tax; or

(4) legality or operation.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1031.253 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1031 / Section 1031.253
§ 1031.253. ELECTION TO INCREASE MAXIMUM TAX RATE.
Status: in_force

The board may call an election to increase the maximum tax rate of the district to a specified rate allowed by law on each $100 valuation of the taxable property in the district if the board determines that an increase is necessary to carry out the purposes for which the initial tax rate was authorized.
Tex. Local Government Code § 501.308 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 501 / Section 501.308
§ 501.308. RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF FORMATION.
Status: in_force

A corporation may authorize, execute, and file a restated certificate of formation by following the procedure to amend the certificate of formation provided by this subchapter, including obtaining the approval of the governing body of the corporation's authorizing unit.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7933.153 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7933 / Section 7933.153
§ 7933.153. CONTRACT TAXES.
Status: in_force

(a) In accordance with Section 49.108, Water Code, the district may impose a tax other than an operation and maintenance tax and use the revenue derived from the tax to make payments under a contract after the provisions of the contract have been approved by a majority of the district voters voting at an election held for that purpose.

(b) A contract approved by the district voters may contain a provision stating that the contract may be modified or amended by the board without further voter approval.
Tex. Family Code § 2.501 — TX Code / Code fa / Chapter 2 / Section 2.501
§ 2.501. DUTY TO SUPPORT.
Status: in_force

(a) Each spouse has the duty to support the other spouse.

(b) A spouse who fails to discharge the duty of support is liable to any person who provides necessaries to the spouse to whom support is owed.
Tex. Transportation Code § 225.0395 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 225 / Section 225.0395
§ 225.0395. SENATOR JOHN TRAEGER MEMORIAL HIGHWAY.
Status: in_force

(a) State Highway 123 between Interstate Highway 10 and United States Highway 90A is designated as the Senator John Traeger Memorial Highway.

(b) The department shall design and construct memorial markers indicating the highway number, the designation as the Senator John Traeger Memorial Highway, and any other appropriate information.

(c) Except as provided by Subsection (d), the department shall erect a marker at each end of the highway and at appropriate intermediate sites along the highway.

(d) The department is not required to design, construct, or erect a marker required by this section unless a grant or donation of private funds is made to the department to cover the cost of the design, construction, and erection of the marker.

(e) Money collected under Section 225.021 for the purpose of implementing this section shall be deposited to the credit of the state highway fund.
Tex. Election Code § 33.060 — TX Code / Code el / Chapter 33 / Section 33.060
§ 33.060. OBSERVING DELIVERY OF ELECTION RECORDS.
Status: in_force

(a) On request of a watcher, an election officer who delivers election records from a precinct polling place, an early voting polling place, a meeting place for an early voting ballot board, or a central counting station shall permit the watcher appointed to serve at that location to accompany the officer in making the delivery.

(b) If delivery is made in a vehicle, an election officer complies with this section if the officer permits the watcher to follow in a different vehicle and drives in a manner that enables the watcher to keep the vehicle in sight.
Tex. Government Code § 1231.101 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 1231 / Section 1231.101
§ 1231.101. BOND FINANCE OFFICE.
Status: in_force

(a) The board shall appoint a director to:

(1) manage the bond finance office; and

(2) select the staff of the office.

(b) When practical, the office shall make use of:

(1) the resources of the Legislative Budget Board; and

(2) the offices of the governor and the comptroller.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8347.0301 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8347 / Section 8347.0301
§ 8347.0301. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES.
Status: in_force

The district has the powers and duties necessary to accomplish the purposes for which the district is created.
Tex. Local Government Code § 375.353 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 375 / Section 375.353
§ 375.353. NOTICE AND HEARING ON CONSOLIDATION.
Status: in_force

(a) Each district's board shall publish notice and hold a public hearing in its district regarding the terms and conditions for consolidation of the districts.

(b) Notice of the hearing must be published one time in a newspaper of general circulation in the area of each district at least seven days before the date of the hearing.

(c) After the hearing, the board by resolution may approve the terms and conditions for consolidation and enter an order consolidating the districts.
Tex. Education Code § 51.289 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 51 / Section 51.289
§ 51.289. MEMORANDA OF UNDERSTANDING REQUIRED.
Status: in_force

To facilitate effective communication and coordination regarding allegations of sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking at the institution, a postsecondary educational institution shall enter into a memorandum of understanding with one or more:

(1) local law enforcement agencies;

(2) sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating violence, or stalking advocacy groups; and

(3) hospitals or other medical resource providers.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3981.0107 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3981 / Section 3981.0107
§ 3981.0107. APPLICABILITY OF MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS LAW.
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, Chapter 375, Local Government Code, applies to the district.
Tex. Government Code § 2166.108 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 2166 / Section 2166.108
§ 2166.108. COMPREHENSIVE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND DEFERRED MAINTENANCE PLAN.
Status: repealed

(a) The commission shall develop a comprehensive capital improvement and deferred maintenance plan that clearly defines the capital improvement needs and critical and noncritical maintenance needs of state buildings.

(b) The comprehensive capital improvement and deferred maintenance plan must:

(1) with respect to deferred maintenance projects:

(A) list, with regular updates, deferred maintenance projects that contain critical high-priority projects and lower-priority, non-health and safety projects;

(B) state the commission's plan for addressing the projects;

(C) account for the completion of high-priority projects;

(D) estimate when the lower-priority projects may become higher-priority projects; and

(E) be modified as necessary to include additional maintenance projects;

(2) contain a list of all predictable capital improvement projects, including a time frame and a cost estimate for each project; and

(3) contain a plan, updated biennially, for responding to emergency repairs and replacements that, in consultation with the Legislative Budget Board, identifies potential sources of funds, which may include bonds and bond interest, that may be used to pay the costs of emergency repair and replacement projects.

(c) The comprehensive capital improvement and deferred maintenance plan must include for each segment of the plan described by Subsection (b) a prioritized list by state agency facility of each project that includes an estimate of the project's cost and the aggregate costs for all facility projects.

(d) Repealed by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 573 (S.B. 241), Sec. 3.01(2), eff. September 1, 2019.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8256.051 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8256 / Section 8256.051
§ 8256.051. DIRECTORS; TERMS.
Status: in_force

(a) The district is governed by a board of five directors.

(b) Except as provided by Section 8256.053, directors serve staggered four-year terms.
Tex. Education Code § 25.0821 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 25 / Section 25.0821
§ 25.0821.
Status: in_force

Sec. 25.0821. MINUTE OF SILENCE TO COMMEMORATE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001. (a) To commemorate the events of September 11, 2001, in each year that date falls on a regular school day, each public elementary or secondary school shall provide for the observance of one minute of silence at the beginning of the first class period of that day.

(b) Immediately before the period of observance required by this section, the class instructor shall make a statement of reference to the memory of individuals who died on September 11, 2001.

(c) The period of observance required by this section may be held in conjunction with the minute of silence required by Section 25.082.
Tex. Utilities Code § 36.152 — TX Code / Code ut / Chapter 36 / Section 36.152
§ 36.152. INVESTIGATING COSTS OF OBTAINING SERVICE FROM ANOTHER SOURCE.
Status: in_force

If an electric utility does not produce or generate the service that it distributes, transmits, or furnishes to the public for compensation but obtains the service from another source, the regulatory authority may investigate the cost of that production or generation in an investigation of the reasonableness of the electric utility's rates.
Tex. Insurance Code § 1272.001 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 1272 / Section 1272.001
§ 1272.001. DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

(a) In this chapter:

(1) "Delegated entity" means an entity, other than a health maintenance organization authorized to engage in business under Chapter 843, that by itself, or through subcontracts with one or more entities, undertakes to arrange for or provide medical care or health care to an enrollee in exchange for a predetermined payment on a prospective basis and that accepts responsibility for performing on behalf of the health maintenance organization a function regulated by this chapter, Chapter 222, 251, or 258, as applicable to a health maintenance organization, Chapter 843 or 1271, Section 1367.053, Subchapter A, Chapter 1452, or Subchapter B, Chapter 1507. The term does not include:

(A) an individual physician; or

(B) a group of employed physicians, practicing medicine under one federal tax identification number, whose total claims paid to providers not employed by the group constitute less than 20 percent of the group's total collected revenue computed on a calendar year basis.

(2) "Delegated network" means a delegated entity that assumes total financial risk for more than one of the following categories of health care services: medical care, hospital or other institutional services, or prescription drugs, as defined by Section 551.003, Occupations Code. The term does not include a delegated entity that shares risk for a category of services with a health maintenance organization.

(3) "Delegated third party" means a third party other than a delegated entity that contracts with a delegated entity, either directly or through another third party, to:

(A) accept responsibility for performing a function regulated by this chapter, Chapter 222, 251, or 258, as applicable to a health maintenance organization, Chapter 843 or 1271, Section 1367.053, Subchapter A, Chapter 1452, or Subchapter B, Chapter 1507; or

(B) receive, handle, or administer funds, if the receipt, handling, or administration is directly or indirectly related to a function regulated by this chapter, Chapter 222, 251, or 258, as applicable to a health maintenance organization, Chapter 843 or 1271, Section 1367.053, Subchapter A, Chapter 1452, or Subchapter B, Chapter 1507.

(4) "Delegation agreement" means an agreement by which a health maintenance organization assigns the responsibility for a function regulated by this chapter, Chapter 222, 251, or 258, as applicable to a health maintenance organization, Chapter 843 or 1271, Section 1367.053, Subchapter A, Chapter 1452, or Subchapter B, Chapter 1507.

(5) "Limited provider network" means a subnetwork within a health maintenance organization delivery network in which contractual relationships exist between physicians, certain providers, independent physician associations, or physician groups that limits an enrollee's access to physicians and providers to those physicians and providers in the subnetwork.

(b) In this chapter, terms defined by Section 843.002 have the meanings assigned by that section.
Tex. Property Code § 93.012 — TX Code / Code pr / Chapter 93 / Section 93.012
§ 93.012. ASSESSMENT OF CHARGES.
Status: in_force

(a) A landlord may not assess a charge, excluding a charge for rent or physical damage to the leased premises, to a tenant unless the amount of the charge or the method by which the charge is to be computed is stated in the lease, an exhibit or attachment that is part of the lease, or an amendment to the lease.

(b) This section does not affect a landlord's right to assess a charge or obtain a remedy allowed under a statute or common law.

(c) This section does not affect the contractual right of a landlord that is a governmental entity created under Subchapter D, Chapter 22, Transportation Code, whose constituent municipalities are populous home-rule municipalities to assess charges under a lease to fully compensate the governmental entity for the governmental entity's operating costs.
Tex. Natural Resources Code § 111.136 — TX Code / Code nr / Chapter 111 / Section 111.136
§ 111.136. REVIEW OF ORDERS.
Status: in_force

A person affected by an order of the commission adopted under the authority of this chapter is entitled to judicial review of that order in a manner other than by trial de novo.