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Tex. Government Code § 432.173 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 432 / Section 432.173
§ 432.173. STATE SEXUAL OFFENSE PREVENTION AND RESPONSE PROGRAM; COORDINATOR.
Status: in_force

(a) To the extent state funds are available for this purpose, the department shall establish a state sexual offense prevention and response program and employ or designate a state sexual offense response coordinator to perform victim advocacy services, including ensuring that persons who are victims of sexual assault or indecent assault receive appropriate responsive care and understand the options available for reporting the assault.

(b) The coordinator shall accept reports for alleged offenses under Sections 22.011, 22.012, and 22.021, Penal Code, made by a person who is a member of the Texas military forces against an accused person who is a member of the Texas military forces.

(c) The coordinator shall notify each person who is a victim of a sexual assault reported under Subsection (b) of their eligibility for crime victims' compensation under Chapter 56B, Code of Criminal Procedure.

(d) The program and coordinator are within the department but shall exercise the authority granted under this subchapter independently from the chain of command within the department.

(e) The coordinator must allow a member of the Texas military forces who is the victim of an alleged offense under Section 22.011, 22.012, or 22.021, Penal Code, to:

(1) file with the coordinator a restricted or unrestricted report or file a restricted report and later convert that report to an unrestricted report;

(2) participate in the United States Department of Defense Catch a Serial Offender program; and

(3) receive notice when the coordinator is made aware that the accused person has been subsequently accused of an offense under Section 22.011, 22.012, or 22.021, Penal Code, by a service member or any other person.
Tex. Occupations Code § 1102.405 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 1102 / Section 1102.405
§ 1102.405. APPEAL BOND EXEMPTION.
Status: in_force

The commission is not required to give an appeal bond in an action to enforce this chapter.
Tex. Natural Resources Code § 111.086 — TX Code / Code nr / Chapter 111 / Section 111.086
§ 111.086. DISCRIMINATION BETWEEN PERSONS AND FIELDS.
Status: in_force

(a) A common purchaser shall purchase oil offered to it for purchase without discrimination in favor of one producer or person against another producer or person in the same field and without unjust or unreasonable discrimination between fields in this state.

(b) A question of justice or reasonableness under this section shall be determined by the commission taking into consideration the production and age of wells in respective fields and all other proper factors.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3820.151 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3820 / Section 3820.151
§ 3820.151. DISBURSEMENTS OR TRANSFERS OF MONEY.
Status: in_force

The board by resolution shall establish the number of directors' signatures and the procedure required for a disbursement or transfer of the district's money.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8013.303 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8013 / Section 8013.303
§ 8013.303. SALES AND USE TAX RATE.
Status: in_force

(a) Not later than the 10th day after the date the results are declared of an election held under Section 8013.302, at which the voters approved imposition of the tax authorized by this subchapter, the board shall determine the initial rate of the tax, which must be in one or more increments of one-eighth of one percent.

(b) After the election held under Section 8013.302, the board may decrease the rate of the tax by one or more increments of one-eighth of one percent.

(c) The rate of the tax may not exceed the lesser of:

(1) the maximum rate authorized by the district voters at the election held under Section 8013.302;

(2) a rate that, when added to the rates of all sales and use taxes imposed by other political subdivisions with territory in the district, would result in the maximum combined rate prescribed by Section 321.101(f), Tax Code, at any location in the district; or

(3) the sales and use tax rate adopted by the City of Austin.

(d) The board shall notify the comptroller of any changes made to the tax rate in the same manner the municipal secretary provides notice to the comptroller under Section 321.405(b), Tax Code.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 76.051 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 76 / Section 76.051
§ 76.051. ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF PROGRAM.
Status: in_force

(a) A federally qualified health center may establish and operate a primary care access program for the provision of primary care services and benefits directly to the employees of participating employers and their dependents within the service area of the federally qualified health center.

(b) A program operated under this chapter shall, within the service area of the federally qualified health center and to the extent practicable:

(1) reduce the number of individuals who lack access to primary care services;

(2) reduce the cost of primary care services for small business employers and their employees;

(3) promote preventive care and reduce the incidence of preventable health conditions, such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and low birth weight in infants;

(4) promote efficient and collaborative delivery of primary care services;

(5) serve as a model for the innovative use of health information technology; and

(6) provide fair payment rates for participating health care providers.

(c) A federally qualified health center may require that participating employees and dependents obtain primary health care services provided under a program only from health care providers at the federally qualified health center.

(d) A federally qualified health center that operates a program under this subchapter is not subject to regulation by the department of insurance as an insurer or health maintenance organization.
Tex. Agriculture Code § 143.072 — TX Code / Code ag / Chapter 143 / Section 143.072
§ 143.072. EXCEPTIONS; COUNTYWIDE ELECTIONS.
Status: in_force

The following counties may not conduct a countywide election on the running at large of cattle: Andrews, Coke, Culberson, Hardin, Hemphill, Hudspeth, Jasper, Jefferson, Kenedy, Kinney, LaSalle, Loving, Motley, Newton, Presidio, Roberts, Schleicher, Terry, Tyler, Upton, Wharton, or Yoakum.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3855.052 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3855 / Section 3855.052
§ 3855.052. APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTORS.
Status: in_force

(a) The mayor and members of the governing body of the city shall appoint voting directors from persons recommended by the board. A person is appointed if a majority of the members of the governing body, including the mayor in case of a tie, vote to appoint that person.

(b) Section 375.063(2), Local Government Code, does not apply to the district.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8483.0106 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8483 / Section 8483.0106
§ 8483.0106. 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 § 6601.002 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 6601 / Section 6601.002
§ 6601.002. NATURE OF DISTRICT.
Status: in_force

(a) The Angleton Drainage District is a conservation and reclamation district re-created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution, for the reclamation and drainage of the district's overflowed lands and other lands needing drainage.

(b) The district is a municipal corporation.
Tex. Transportation Code § 223.043 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 223 / Section 223.043
§ 223.043. CITIZEN'S PREFERENCE IN EMPLOYMENT.
Status: in_force

In a contract for the construction, maintenance, or improvement of a designated state highway, the department may require that a citizen of the United States and of the county in which construction, maintenance, or improvement of the highway is being proposed shall be given preference in employment to perform manual labor.
Tex. Finance Code § 157.019 — TX Code / Code fi / Chapter 157 / Section 157.019
§ 157.019. MODIFICATION OF LICENSE; CHANGE OF SPONSORSHIP.
Status: in_force

(a) Before the 10th day preceding the effective date of an address change, a residential mortgage loan originator shall notify the commissioner or authorized designee in writing of the new address.

(b) A person licensed under this chapter must notify the commissioner or the commissioner's authorized designee not later than the 10th day after the date of any change in the person's name for the issuance of an amended license.

(c) When the sponsorship of a residential mortgage loan originator is terminated, the residential mortgage loan originator or the former sponsoring entity licensed or registered under this chapter or Chapter 156 shall immediately notify the commissioner. The residential mortgage loan originator's license then becomes inactive. The residential mortgage loan originator license may be activated if, before the license expires, an entity licensed or registered under this chapter or Chapter 156 files a request, accompanied by a $25 fee, notifying the commissioner that the entity will sponsor the residential mortgage loan originator and will assume responsibility for the actions of the residential mortgage loan originator.

(d) A residential mortgage loan originator may not conduct business under any assumed name that is not the registered assumed name of the entity licensed or registered under this chapter or Chapter 156 that is sponsoring the originator.

(e) A fee under this section is not refundable and may not be credited or applied to any other fee or indebtedness owed by the person paying the fee.
Tex. Education Code § 21.355 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 21 / Section 21.355
§ 21.355. CONFIDENTIALITY.
Status: in_force

(a) A document evaluating the performance of a teacher or administrator is confidential and is not subject to disclosure under Chapter 552, Government Code.

(b) Subsection (a) applies to a teacher or administrator employed by an open-enrollment charter school regardless of whether the teacher or administrator is certified under Subchapter B.

(c) At the request of a school district, open-enrollment charter school, or private school at which a teacher or administrator has applied for employment, a school district or an open-enrollment charter school shall give the requesting district or school a document evaluating the performance of a teacher or administrator employed by the school.

(d) A school district or open-enrollment charter school shall give the agency a document evaluating the performance of a teacher or administrator employed by the district or school for purposes of an investigation conducted by the agency.

(e) Notwithstanding Subsection (a) and except as otherwise provided by a court order prohibiting disclosure, a document provided to the agency under Subsection (d) may be used in a disciplinary proceeding against a teacher or administrator if the document may be admitted under rules of evidence applicable to a contested case, as provided by Section 2001.081, Government Code.

(f) A document provided to the agency under Subsection (d) remains confidential unless the document becomes part of the record in a contested case under Chapter 2001, Government Code.
Tex. Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 16.035 — TX Code / Code cp / Chapter 16 / Section 16.035
§ 16.035. LIEN ON REAL PROPERTY.
Status: in_force

(a) A person must bring suit for the recovery of real property under a real property lien or the foreclosure of a real property lien not later than four years after the day the cause of action accrues.

(b) A sale of real property under a power of sale in a mortgage or deed of trust that creates a real property lien must be made not later than four years after the day the cause of action accrues.

(c) The running of the statute of limitations is not suspended against a bona fide purchaser for value, a lienholder, or a lessee who has no notice or knowledge of the suspension of the limitations period and who acquires an interest in the property when a cause of action on an outstanding real property lien has accrued for more than four years, except as provided by:

(1) Section 16.062, providing for suspension in the event of death; or

(2) Section 16.036, providing for recorded extensions of real property liens.

(d) On the expiration of the four-year limitations period, the real property lien and a power of sale to enforce the real property lien become void.

(e) If a series of notes or obligations or a note or obligation payable in installments is secured by a real property lien, the four-year limitations period does not begin to run until the maturity date of the last note, obligation, or installment.

(f) The limitations period under this section is not affected by Section 3.118, Business & Commerce Code.

(g) In this section, "real property lien" means:

(1) a superior title retained by a vendor in a deed of conveyance or a purchase money note; or

(2) a vendor's lien, a mortgage, a deed of trust, a voluntary mechanic's lien, or a voluntary materialman's lien on real estate, securing a note or other written obligation.
Tex. Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 65.015 — TX Code / Code cp / Chapter 65 / Section 65.015
§ 65.015. CLOSING OF STREETS.
Status: in_force

An injunction may not be granted to stay or prevent the governing body of an incorporated city from vacating, abandoning, or closing a street or alley except on the suit of a person:

(1) who is the owner or lessee of real property abutting the part of the street or alley vacated, abandoned, or closed; and

(2) whose damages have neither been ascertained and paid in a condemnation suit by the city nor released.
Tex. Government Code § 1472.002 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 1472 / Section 1472.002
§ 1472.002. AUTHORITY TO ISSUE REFUNDING BONDS.
Status: in_force

(a) The commissioners court of the county may issue bonds to refund the outstanding bonds described by Section 1472.001 and may impose ad valorem taxes to pay the interest on and to provide a sinking fund for the redemption of the refunding bonds only if the issuance of the bonds is approved by a majority of the qualified voters voting at an election held in the county in the manner provided by Chapter 1251.

(b) The aggregate principal amount of outstanding refunding bonds issued under this section may not exceed an amount that, for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds, would require the county to impose ad valorem taxes at a rate greater than the 80-cent limitation established by Section 9, Article VIII, Texas Constitution.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1010.061 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1010 / Section 1010.061
§ 1010.061. RETIREMENT, DISABILITY, AND DEATH COMPENSATION FUND.
Status: in_force

(a) The board may:

(1) provide for and administer a retirement, disability, and death compensation fund for district officers and employees; and

(2) adopt a plan to effectuate the purpose of this section, including the forms of insurance and annuities that the board considers advisable.

(b) The board may change a plan or rule after notice to the employees and a hearing.

(c) As the board considers advisable, the board may invest money provided:

(1) from the compensation of officers and employees participating in the fund and plan authorized by this section; and

(2) by the district for the retirement, disability, and death compensation fund after the money has been received by the district.

(d) The board may invest the money in:

(1) bonds of the United States, this state, or any political subdivision of this state;

(2) bonds issued by any agency of the United States if the payment of the principal and interest is guaranteed by the United States; and

(3) life insurance policies, endowment or annuity contracts, or interest-bearing certificates of legal reserve life insurance companies authorized to write the contracts in this state.

(e) A sufficient amount of money shall be kept on hand to meet the immediate payment of amounts likely to become due each year out of the fund as determined by the board.

(f) The recipients or beneficiaries of the fund are not eligible for any other pension, retirement fund, or direct aid from this state unless the fund created under this chapter is released to the state as a condition precedent to receiving the other pension or aid or the joining of any other system.

(g) The board may:

(1) include hospitalization and medical benefits to district officers and employees as part of the compensation currently paid to the officers and employees;

(2) adopt a plan or rule in connection with the benefits provided under Subdivision (1); or

(3) amend or change a plan or rule adopted under Subdivision (2) as the board determines.

(h) The board may contract with the state and federal governments as necessary to establish and continue a retirement program for the benefit of the district's employees.
Tex. Insurance Code § 6002.201 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 6002 / Section 6002.201
§ 6002.201. RENEWAL REQUIRED; FEE.
Status: in_force

(a) A renewal of a registration certificate or license issued under this chapter is valid for a period of two years. The license or registration renewal fee for each year of the two-year period is payable on renewal.

(b) The commissioner by rule may adopt a system under which registration certificates and licenses expire on various dates during the year. For the year in which an expiration date of a registration certificate or license is less than one year from its issuance or anniversary date, the fee shall be prorated on a monthly basis so that each holder of a registration certificate or license pays only that portion of the renewal fee that is allocable to the number of months during which the registration certificate or license is valid. The total renewal fee is payable on renewal on the new expiration date.
Tex. Local Government Code § 392.051 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 392 / Section 392.051
§ 392.051. GENERAL POWERS.
Status: in_force

(a) An authority exercises public and essential governmental functions and has the powers necessary or convenient to accomplish the purposes and provisions of this chapter.

(b) The powers of an authority are vested in the commissioners of the authority.

(c) An authority may delegate a power or duty to an agent or employee as it considers proper.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8467.052 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8467 / Section 8467.052
§ 8467.052. 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 territory of the district as it existed on the date the district was created.

(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) 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.

(f) 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 Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and record the order in the real property records of each county in which the district is located.

(g) Any new district created by the division of the district shall hold a confirmation and directors' election as provided by Section 49.102, Water Code.

(h) Municipal consent to the creation of the district and to the inclusion of land in the district acts as municipal consent to the creation of any new district created by the division of the district and to the inclusion of land in the new district.

(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.
Tex. Insurance Code § 1301.105 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 1301 / Section 1301.105
§ 1301.105. AUDITED CLAIMS.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided by Section 1301.1054, an insurer that intends to audit a claim submitted by a preferred provider shall pay the charges submitted at 100 percent of the contracted rate on the claim not later than:

(1) the 30th day after the date the insurer receives the clean claim from the preferred provider if the claim is submitted electronically; or

(2) the 45th day after the date the insurer receives the clean claim from the preferred provider if the claim is submitted nonelectronically.

(b) The insurer shall clearly indicate on the explanation of payment statement in the manner prescribed by the commissioner by rule that the clean claim is being paid at 100 percent of the contracted rate, subject to completion of the audit.

(c) If the insurer requests additional information to complete the audit, the request must describe with specificity the clinical information requested and relate only to information the insurer in good faith can demonstrate is specific to the claim or episode of care. The insurer may not request as a part of the audit information that is not contained in, or is not in the process of being incorporated into, the patient's medical or billing record maintained by a preferred provider.

(d) If the preferred provider does not supply information reasonably requested by the insurer in connection with the audit, the insurer may:

(1) notify the provider in writing that the provider must provide the information not later than the 45th day after the date of the notice or forfeit the amount of the claim; and

(2) if the provider does not provide the information required by this section, recover the amount of the claim.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3791.0506 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3791 / Section 3791.0506
§ 3791.0506. CONSENT OF MUNICIPALITY REQUIRED.
Status: in_force

(a) The board may not issue bonds until each municipality in whose corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction the district is located has consented by ordinance or resolution to the creation of the district and to the inclusion of land in the district.

(b) This section applies only to the district's first issuance of bonds payable from ad valorem taxes.
Tex. Alcoholic Beverage Code § 204.07 — TX Code / Code al / Chapter 204 / Section 204.07
§ 204.07. WAIVER OF BOND REQUIREMENT.
Status: in_force

The commission may waive the requirement that a licensee or permittee furnish a bond under this chapter if the commission by rule determines the submission of the bond is no longer necessary.