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Tex. Alcoholic Beverage Code § 61.38 — TX Code / Code al / Chapter 61 / Section 61.38
§ 61.38. NOTICE OF APPLICATION.
Status: in_force

(a) Every original applicant for a license to brew, distribute, or sell malt beverages at retail shall give notice of the application by electronic or nonelectronic publication at the applicant's own expense in two consecutive issues of a newspaper of general circulation published in the city or town in which the applicant's place of business is located. If no newspaper is published in that city or town, the notice must be published in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county where the applicant's business is located. If no newspaper is published in that county, the notice must be published in a qualified newspaper published in the closest neighboring county and circulated in the county where the applicant's business is located.

(b) The notice must be printed in 10-point boldface type and must include:

(1) the type of license applied for;

(2) the exact location of the business for which the license is sought;

(3) the name of each owner of the business and, if the business is operated under an assumed name, the trade name together with the name of each owner; and

(4) if the applicant is a corporation, the names and titles of all officers.

(c) An applicant for a renewal license is not required to publish notice.
Tex. Government Code § 54.762 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 54 / Section 54.762
§ 54.762. JURISDICTION NOT DIMINISHED.
Status: in_force

This subchapter does not diminish the jurisdiction granted by the constitution and laws of this state to any court named in this subchapter.
Tex. Family Code § 58.401 — TX Code / Code fa / Chapter 58 / Section 58.401
§ 58.401. DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

In this subchapter:

(1) "Department" means the Texas Juvenile Justice Department.

(2) "Criminal justice agency" has the meaning assigned by Section 411.082, Government Code.

(3) "Juvenile justice agency" means an agency that has custody or control over juvenile offenders.

(4) "Partner agencies" means those agencies described in Section 58.305 as well as private service providers to the juvenile justice system.

(5) "System" means an automated statewide juvenile information and case management system.
Tex. Government Code § 1475.053 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 1475 / Section 1475.053
§ 1475.053. AUTHORITY TO ISSUE TIME WARRANTS.
Status: in_force

The commissioners court of a county may issue time warrants to pay for an acquisition under Section 1475.052.
Tex. Estates Code § 358.153 — TX Code / Code es / Chapter 358 / Section 358.153
§ 358.153. NOTICE NOT REQUIRED.
Status: in_force

Notice by advertising, citation, or otherwise of the filing of a pooling or unitization application under Section 358.152 is not required.
Tex. Finance Code § 154.106 — TX Code / Code fi / Chapter 154 / Section 154.106
§ 154.106. TRANSFER OF BUSINESS OWNERSHIP.
Status: in_force

(a) A permit holder shall notify the department and either the depository of the money held under Subchapter F or the issuer of insurance policy funding contracts under Subchapter E of a transfer of ownership of the permit holder's business or a transfer of 25 percent or more of the stock or other ownership or membership interest of the business in a single transaction. The notice must be given:

(1) in the case of a voluntary transfer, not later than the seventh day after the date the contract for transfer is executed; or

(2) in the case of an involuntary transfer, not later than the first business day after the date the permit holder receives notice of the impending foreclosure or other involuntary transfer.

(b) If the proposed transferee will own 51 percent or more of the business and is not a permit holder, the proposed transferee shall file an application for a permit with the department in accordance with this subchapter. If the application is complete, the commissioner shall approve or deny the application before the 16th day after the date the application was received. The transfer of prepaid funeral benefits contracts of the permit holder that is the transferor may not occur until after the date a permit is issued to the applicant that is the transferee.

(c) If the commissioner denies the application, the applicant may request a hearing not later than the 15th day after the date on which notice of the determination is hand-delivered or the notice is mailed, whichever date is earlier.
Tex. Government Code § 2054.128 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 2054 / Section 2054.128
§ 2054.128. ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCES AGENCIES INTERNET PORTAL.
Status: in_force

(a) State agencies that have jurisdiction over matters related to environmental protection or quality or to the development, conservation, or preservation of natural resources shall develop, in mutual cooperation with the department, a single information link, through the state electronic Internet portal, to provide electronic access to information and services related to the agencies' authority and duties, including access to agency rules and other public information.

(b) The department shall coordinate the efforts of the agencies in developing the information link to ensure that the efforts produce a link that is compatible with efforts of the task force conducted under Section 2054.062.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7937A.0301 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7937A / Section 7937A.0301
§ 7937A.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. Property Code § 116.164 — TX Code / Code pr / Chapter 116 / Section 116.164
§ 116.164. INSURANCE POLICIES AND SIMILAR CONTRACTS.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as otherwise provided in Subsection (b), a trustee shall allocate to principal the proceeds of a life insurance policy or other contract in which the trust or its trustee is named as beneficiary, including a contract that insures the trust or its trustee against loss for damage to, destruction of, or loss of title to a trust asset. The trustee shall allocate dividends on an insurance policy to income if the premiums on the policy are paid from income, and to principal if the premiums are paid from principal.

(b) A trustee shall allocate to income proceeds of a contract that insures the trustee against loss of occupancy or other use by an income beneficiary, loss of income, or, subject to Section 116.153, loss of profits from a business.

(c) This section does not apply to a contract to which Section 116.172 applies.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1099.106 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1099 / Section 1099.106
§ 1099.106. PURCHASING AND ACCOUNTING PROCEDURES.
Status: in_force

The board may prescribe:

(1) the method and manner of making purchases and expenditures by and for the district; and

(2) all accounting and control procedures.
Tex. Finance Code § 181.106 — TX Code / Code fi / Chapter 181 / Section 181.106
§ 181.106. REGULATION AND EXAMINATION OF RELATED ENTITIES.
Status: in_force

(a) The banking commissioner may regulate and examine, to the same extent as if the services or activities were performed by a state trust company on its own premises:

(1) the activities of a state trust company affiliate; and

(2) the services or activities of a third-party service provider that a state trust company or state trust company affiliate has contracted for or otherwise arranged to be performed on behalf of the state trust company or state trust company affiliate.

(b) The banking commissioner may collect a fee from an examined third-party service provider or affiliate in connection with each examination to cover the cost of the examination or may collect that fee from the state trust companies that use the examined third-party service provider.

(c) To promote regulatory efficiency, if, in the preceding 24 months, a third-party service provider or affiliate has been examined by a federal or state financial services regulatory agency or by a member agency of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, or its successor agency, the banking commissioner may accept the results of that examination instead of conducting the banking commissioner's own examination of the third-party service provider or affiliate. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as limiting or restricting the banking commissioner from participating in an examination of a third-party service provider or affiliate conducted by a federal or state financial services regulatory agency or by a member agency of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, or its successor agency.

(d) A third-party service provider that refuses to submit to examination or to pay an assessed fee for examination under this section is subject to an enforcement action under Chapter 185. With respect to a third-party service provider's refusal to submit to examination, the banking commissioner may notify all state trust companies of the refusal and warn that continued use of the third-party service provider may constitute an unsafe and unsound fiduciary practice.
Tex. Utilities Code § 163.012 — TX Code / Code ut / Chapter 163 / Section 163.012
§ 163.012. AUTHORITY TO MAKE AGREEMENTS.
Status: in_force

Public and private entities may by agreement jointly plan, finance, acquire, construct, own, operate, and maintain electric facilities to:

(1) achieve economies of scale in providing electric energy to the public;

(2) promote the economic development of this state and its natural resources; and

(3) meet the state's future power needs.
Tex. Government Code § 614.192 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 614 / Section 614.192
§ 614.192. INSURANCE COVERAGE REQUIRED.
Status: in_force

(a) Each volunteer police force member must be insured or covered by the applicable state agency or political subdivision against any injury suffered by the police force member in the course and scope of performing the person's assigned duties at the request of or under a contract with a state agency or political subdivision.

(b) The applicable state agency or political subdivision may satisfy the requirements of Subsection (a) by:

(1) providing insurance coverage; or

(2) entering into an interlocal agreement with another political subdivision providing for self-insurance.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 4501.153 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 4501 / Section 4501.153
§ 4501.153. GRANTS FROM OTHER TAXING AUTHORITY; CONTRACT.
Status: in_force

(a) A taxing authority in Anderson or Cherokee County may by contract grant to the authority:

(1) sales tax revenue received from a sale made on property owned, controlled, or leased by the authority or by a person with whom the authority contracts under Section 4501.102; or

(2) local hotel occupancy tax revenue received from a hotel located within one mile of a place where the Texas State Railroad loads or unloads passengers.

(b) The grant must serve a public purpose of the taxing authority making the grant.
Tex. Insurance Code § 1369.554 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 1369 / Section 1369.554
§ 1369.554. PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN COMMUNICATIONS.
Status: in_force

(a) A health benefit plan issuer or pharmacy benefit manager may not steer or direct a patient to use the issuer's or manager's affiliated provider through any oral or written communication, including:

(1) online messaging regarding the provider; or

(2) patient- or prospective patient-specific advertising, marketing, or promotion of the provider.

(b) This section does not prohibit a health benefit plan issuer or pharmacy benefit manager from including the issuer's or manager's affiliated provider in a patient or prospective patient communication, if the communication:

(1) is regarding information about the cost or service provided by pharmacies or durable medical equipment providers in the network of a health benefit plan in which the patient or prospective patient is enrolled; and

(2) includes accurate comparable information regarding pharmacies or durable medical equipment providers in the network that are not the issuer's or manager's affiliated providers.
Tex. Agriculture Code § 43.032 — TX Code / Code ag / Chapter 43 / Section 43.032
§ 43.032. TERMS OF AGREEMENT WITH TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY.
Status: in_force

The demonstration work shall be conducted on terms and conditions agreed to by the commissioners court and the agents of Texas A & M University.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3885.101 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3885 / Section 3885.101
§ 3885.101. 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 § 7980.001 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7980 / Section 7980.001
§ 7980.001. DEFINITION.
Status: in_force

In this chapter, "district" means the Denton County Municipal Utility District No. 4.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 292A.151 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 292A / Section 292A.151
§ 292A.151. MANDATORY PAYMENTS BASED ON PAYING HOSPITAL NET PATIENT REVENUE.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided by Subsection (e), the commissioners court of a county that collects a mandatory payment authorized under this chapter may require an annual mandatory payment to be assessed on the net patient revenue of each institutional health care provider located in the county. The commissioners court may provide for the mandatory payment to be assessed quarterly. In the first year in which the mandatory payment is required, the mandatory payment is assessed on the net patient revenue of an institutional health care provider as determined by the data reported to the Department of State Health Services under Sections 311.032 and 311.033 in the fiscal year ending in 2015 or, if the institutional health care provider did not report any data under those sections in that fiscal year, as determined by the institutional health care provider's Medicare cost report submitted for the 2015 fiscal year or for the closest subsequent fiscal year for which the provider submitted the Medicare cost report. The county shall update the amount of the mandatory payment on an annual basis.

(b) The amount of a mandatory payment authorized under this chapter must be uniformly proportionate with the amount of net patient revenue generated by each paying hospital in the county. A mandatory payment authorized under this chapter may not hold harmless any institutional health care provider, as required under 42 U.S.C. Section 1396b(w).

(c) The commissioners court of a county that collects a mandatory payment authorized under this chapter shall set the amount of the mandatory payment. The amount of the mandatory payment required of each paying hospital may not exceed six percent of the paying hospital's net patient revenue.

(d) Subject to the maximum amount prescribed by Subsection (c), the commissioners court of a county that collects a mandatory payment authorized under this chapter shall set the mandatory payments in amounts that in the aggregate will generate sufficient revenue to cover the administrative expenses of the county for activities under this chapter, to fund an intergovernmental transfer described by Section 292A.103(c)(1), and to pay for indigent programs, except that the amount of revenue from mandatory payments used for administrative expenses of the county for activities under this chapter in a year may not exceed the lesser of four percent of the total revenue generated from the mandatory payment or $20,000.

(e) A paying hospital may not add a mandatory payment required under this section as a surcharge to a patient.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 292D.001 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 292D / Section 292D.001
§ 292D.001. DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

In this chapter:

(1) "Institutional health care provider" means a nonpublic hospital that provides inpatient hospital services.

(2) "Paying hospital" means an institutional health care provider required to make a mandatory payment under this chapter.

(3) "Program" means the county health care provider participation program authorized by this chapter.
Tex. Insurance Code § 1560.004 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 1560 / Section 1560.004
§ 1560.004. PRESCRIPTION DRUG REIMBURSEMENT RATES.
Status: in_force

(a) An issuer of a health benefit plan that provides pharmacy benefits to enrollees shall reimburse pharmacies participating in the health plan using prescription drug reimbursement rates, for both brand name and generic prescription drugs, that are based on a current and nationally recognized benchmark index that includes average wholesale price and maximum allowable cost.

(b) Regardless of whether a pharmacy is a mail order pharmacy or a community retail pharmacy, an issuer of a health benefit plan shall use the same benchmark index, including the same average wholesale price, maximum allowable cost, and national prescription drug codes, to reimburse all pharmacies participating in the health benefit plan.
Tex. Local Government Code § 323.025 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 323 / Section 323.025
§ 323.025. CLAIMS.
Status: in_force

A claim against the law library shall be handled as other claims against the county.
Tex. Local Government Code § 374.013 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 374 / Section 374.013
§ 374.013. USE OF PUBLIC OR PRIVATE RESOURCES.
Status: in_force

(a) To further the urban renewal objectives of this chapter, a municipality may formulate a workable program to use appropriate private and public resources, including the resources specified by Subsection (b), to encourage urban rehabilitation, to provide for the redevelopment of slum and blighted areas, or to undertake those activities or other feasible municipal activities as may be suitably employed to achieve the objective of the program. The program must specifically include provisions relating to:

(1) prevention, through diligent enforcement of housing and occupancy controls and standards, of the expansion of blight into areas of the municipality that are free from blight; and

(2) rehabilitation or conservation of slum and blighted areas as far as practicable to areas that are free from blight through replanning, removing congestion, providing parks, playgrounds, and other public improvements, encouraging voluntary rehabilitation and requiring the repair and rehabilitation of deteriorated or deteriorating structures, and the clearance and redevelopment of slum areas.

(b) Each municipality, to the greatest extent determined to be feasible, shall afford the maximum opportunity, consistent with the needs of the municipality as a whole, for the rehabilitation or redevelopment of the urban renewal area by private enterprise. A municipality shall consider this objective in exercising powers under this chapter, including:

(1) formulation of a workable program for urban renewal under Subsection (a);

(2) approval of urban renewal plans consistent with the general plan of the municipality;

(3) exercise of zoning power;

(4) enforcement of other laws, codes, and regulations relating to land use, use and occupancy of buildings and improvements, and the disposition of any property acquired; and

(5) provision of necessary public improvements.
Tex. Local Government Code § 271.025 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 271 / Section 271.025
§ 271.025. ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS.
Status: in_force

(a) The governmental entity must advertise for bids. The advertisement for bids must include a notice that:

(1) describes the work;

(2) states the location at which the bidding documents, plans, specifications, or other data may be examined by all bidders; and

(3) states the time and place for submitting bids and the time and place that bids will be opened.

(b) The advertisement must be published as required by law. If no legal requirement for publication exists, the advertisement must be published at least twice in one or more newspapers of general circulation in the county or counties in which the work is to be performed. The second publication must be on or before the 10th day before the first date bids may be submitted.

(c) The governmental entity must mail a notice containing the information required under Subsection (a) to any organization that:

(1) requests in advance that notices for bids be sent to it;

(2) agrees in writing to pay the actual cost of mailing the notice; and

(3) certifies that it circulates notices for bids to the construction trade in general.

(d) The governmental entity shall mail a notice required under Subsection (c) on or before the date the first newspaper advertisement under this section is published.

(e) In a county with a population of 3.3 million or more, the county and any district or authority created under Article XVI, Section 59, of the Texas Constitution of which the governing body is the commissioners court may require that a minimum of 25 percent of the work be performed by the bidder and, notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, may establish financial criteria for the surety companies that provide payment and performance bonds.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 502.017 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 502 / Section 502.017
§ 502.017. EMPLOYEE NOTICE; RIGHTS OF EMPLOYEES.
Status: in_force

(a) An employer shall post and maintain adequate notice, at locations where notices are normally posted, informing employees of their rights under this chapter. If the department does not prepare the notice under Section 502.008, the employer shall prepare the notice.

(b) Employees who may be exposed to hazardous chemicals shall be informed of the exposure and shall have access to the workplace chemical list and MSDSs for the hazardous chemicals. Employees, on request, shall be provided a copy of a specific MSDS with any trade secret information deleted. In addition, employees shall receive training concerning the hazards of the chemicals and measures they can take to protect themselves from those hazards. Employees shall be provided with appropriate personal protective equipment. These rights are guaranteed.

(c) An employer may not discharge, cause to be discharged, otherwise discipline, or in any manner discriminate against an employee because the employee has:

(1) filed a complaint;

(2) assisted an inspector of the department who may make or is making an inspection under Section 502.011;

(3) instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding under or related to this chapter;

(4) testified or is about to testify in a proceeding under this chapter; or

(5) exercised any rights afforded under this chapter on behalf of the employee or on behalf of others.

(d) Pay, position, seniority, or other benefits may not be lost as the result of the exercise of any right provided by this chapter.

(e) A waiver by an employee of the benefits or requirements of this chapter is void. An employer's request or requirement that an employee waive any rights under this chapter as a condition of employment is a violation of this chapter.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 242.255 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 242 / Section 242.255
§ 242.255. ARBITRATOR; SELECTION.
Status: in_force

The arbitrator shall be appointed in accordance with the rules adopted under Section 242.253(b).
Tex. Education Code § 56.354 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 56 / Section 56.354
§ 56.354. ELIGIBLE LOANS.
Status: in_force

(a) A person may receive Teach for Texas loan repayment assistance under this subchapter for the repayment of any student loan for education at any public or private institution of higher education through any lender. If the loan is not a state or federal guaranteed student loan, the note or other writing governing the terms of the loan must require the loan proceeds to be used for expenses incurred by a person to attend a public or private institution of higher education.

(b) The coordinating board may not provide loan repayment assistance for a student loan that is in default at the time of the person's application.