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Tex. Government Code § 437.220 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 437 / Section 437.220
§ 437.220. SUPPLEMENTAL DUTY PAY FOR ECONOMIC HARDSHIP.
Status: in_force

(a) A person who is called to military duty as a member of the Texas National Guard in the service of this state or the United States by proper federal or state authority and who suffers an economic hardship as a result of serving on military duty is eligible to receive supplemental pay for serving in accordance with this section. Payment under this subsection is subject to the availability of funds.

(b) The comptroller shall establish the Texas National Guard members' supplemental military duty pay account in the general revenue fund. Money in the account may be appropriated only for purposes of implementing this section. The comptroller, governor, or adjutant general may accept gifts and grants for deposit to the credit of the account. The legislature may transfer money into the account or may appropriate money to implement this section and the comptroller shall credit that money to the account.

(c) A member of the Texas National Guard described by Subsection (a) is eligible to receive supplemental pay under this section in an amount not to exceed the lesser of:

(1) the amount required to alleviate the economic hardship the member suffers as a result of serving on active duty; and

(2) the difference between the amount of income that the member has lost from civilian employment as a result of being called to military duty and the amount of military pay and allowances the member receives from state or federal sources while on military duty.

(d) The adjutant general shall determine whether a member is eligible to receive supplemental pay under this section and the amount of supplemental pay a member may receive. In determining the amount, the adjutant general shall consider the total amount that is available for supplemental pay during a period and the probable total need for supplemental pay during that period.

(e) The adjutant general may adopt regulations to implement this section, including regulations that prescribe the procedure for requesting supplemental pay and that prescribe evidence a member may or must present to demonstrate hardship. The comptroller, in consultation with the adjutant general, may adopt rules to govern the manner and method of paying supplemental pay under this section.
Tex. Insurance Code § 1272.202 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 1272 / Section 1272.202
§ 1272.202. NOTICE OF NONCOMPLIANCE OR HAZARDOUS OPERATING CONDITION.
Status: in_force

(a) If a health maintenance organization becomes aware of information that indicates a delegated entity with which the health maintenance organization has entered into a delegation agreement is not operating in accordance with the agreement or is operating in a condition that renders continuing the entity's business hazardous to the enrollees, the health maintenance organization shall in writing:

(1) notify the entity of those findings; and

(2) request a written explanation and documentation supporting that explanation of the entity's apparent noncompliance or the existence of the hazardous condition.

(b) A health maintenance organization shall provide to the commissioner a copy of each notice and request submitted to a delegated entity under this section and each response or other documentation the health maintenance organization receives or generates in response to the notice and request.
Tex. Water Code § 49.3186 — TX Code / Code wa / Chapter 49 / Section 49.3186
§ 49.3186. DEADLINE FOR PAYMENT OF AMOUNTS DUE.
Status: in_force

The order of the board approving further consideration of the application has no force or effect and no further proceeding may be held on the application unless the applicant deposits with the district the amounts due under Section 49.3182 not later than:

(1) the 20th day after the date on which the order was adopted; or

(2) the expiration of a period not to exceed 30 days after the date on which the order was adopted as ordered by the board.
Tex. Water Code § 152.203 — TX Code / Code wa / Chapter 152 / Section 152.203
§ 152.203. INDEPENDENT APPRAISAL.
Status: in_force

(a) Before a river authority may acquire property under Section 152.202(2) through the exchange of revenue bonds, notes, or other obligations, the authority must obtain a written appraisal of the property by an independent appraiser certifying that the property has a value equal to or greater than the par value of the bonds, notes, or other obligations.

(b) The river authority shall:

(1) maintain the appraisal on file as a public record; and

(2) file a copy of the appraisal with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8434.153 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8434 / Section 8434.153
§ 8434.153. LIMITATION ON AREA OF NEW DISTRICT.
Status: in_force

A new district created by the division of the district may not, at the time the new district is created, contain any land outside the area described by Section 2 of the Act enacting this chapter.
Tex. Occupations Code § 1002.1511 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 1002 / Section 1002.1511
§ 1002.1511. NEGOTIATED RULEMAKING; ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION.
Status: in_force

(a) The board shall develop a policy to encourage the use of:

(1) negotiated rulemaking procedures under Chapter 2008, Government Code, for the adoption of board rules; and

(2) appropriate alternative dispute resolution procedures under Chapter 2009, Government Code, to assist in the resolution of internal and external disputes under the board's jurisdiction.

(b) The board's procedures relating to alternative dispute resolution must conform, to the extent possible, to any model guidelines issued by the State Office of Administrative Hearings for the use of alternative dispute resolution by state agencies.

(c) The board shall:

(1) coordinate the implementation of the policy adopted under Subsection (a);

(2) provide training as needed to implement the procedures for negotiated rulemaking or alternative dispute resolution; and

(3) collect data concerning the effectiveness of those procedures.
Tex. Civil Practice and Remedies Code § 152.002 — TX Code / Code cp / Chapter 152 / Section 152.002
§ 152.002. ESTABLISHMENT.
Status: in_force

(a) The commissioners court of a county by order may establish an alternative dispute resolution system for the peaceable and expeditious resolution of disputes.

(b) The commissioners court may do all necessary acts to make the alternative dispute resolution system effective, including:

(1) contracting with a private nonprofit corporation, a political subdivision, a public corporation, or a combination of these entities for the purpose of administering the system;

(2) making reasonable rules relating to the system, including rules specifying whether criminal cases may be referred to the system; and

(3) vesting management of the system in a committee selected by the county bar association.

(c) The actions of a committee authorized by Subsection (b)(3) are subject to the approval of the commissioners court.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 481.353 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 481 / Section 481.353
§ 481.353. MEETINGS.
Status: in_force

(a) The work group shall meet when necessary as determined by the board.

(b) The work group is subject to Chapter 551, Government Code.

(c) The work group shall proactively engage stakeholders and solicit and take into account input from the public.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8837.101 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8837 / Section 8837.101
§ 8837.101. GENERAL POWERS.
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, the district has all of the rights, powers, privileges, functions, and duties provided by the general law of this state applicable to groundwater conservation districts created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8802.104 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8802 / Section 8802.104
§ 8802.104. USER FEES.
Status: in_force

(a) The board by rule may impose reasonable fees on each well for which the district issues a permit and which is not exempt from regulation by the district.

(b) The board may assess the fees on an annual basis according to:

(1) the size of column pipe used in the well;

(2) the production capacity of the well; or

(3) the actual, authorized, or anticipated pumpage of the well.

(c) The board may use fees as both a regulatory mechanism and a revenue-producing mechanism.

(d) The board shall adopt rules relating to:

(1) the rates of fees;

(2) the manner and form for filing reports of fees; and

(3) the manner of collecting fees.

(e) The district may use money collected from fees to:

(1) manage and operate the district; and

(2) pay all or part of the principal of and interest on district bonds or notes.
Tex. Business & Commerce Code § 304.005 — TX Code / Code bc / Chapter 304 / Section 304.005
§ 304.005. LIBERAL CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATION.
Status: in_force

(a) This chapter shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purpose to protect persons and the public against false, misleading, abusive, or deceptive practices in the telemarketing business.

(b) The fact that a claimant has recovered under a private action arising from a violation of this chapter more than once may not limit recovery in a future legal proceeding in any manner.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7926.106 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7926 / Section 7926.106
§ 7926.106. DIVISION OF DISTRICT.
Status: in_force

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

(1) has no outstanding bonded debt; and

(2) is not imposing ad valorem taxes.

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

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

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

(e) The board may adopt an order dividing the district before or after the date the board holds an election under Section 7926.003 to confirm the creation of the district and before or after an election under Section 7926.151 to authorize the issuance of bonds.

(f) An order dividing the district must:

(1) name each new district;

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

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

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

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

(h) Any new district created by the division of the district shall hold a confirmation and directors' election as required by Section 7926.003.

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

(j) If the creation of the new district is confirmed, the new district shall provide the election date and results to the commission.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8402.052 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8402 / Section 8402.052
§ 8402.052. BOARD VACANCY.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a vacancy in the office of director shall be filled in the manner provided by Section 49.105, Water Code.

(b) The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality shall appoint directors to fill all of the vacancies on the board whenever the number of qualified directors is fewer than three.
Tex. Tax Code § 171.811 — TX Code / Code tx / Chapter 171 / Section 171.811
§ 171.811. RULES.
Status: in_force

The comptroller may adopt rules and procedures necessary to implement, administer, and enforce this subchapter.
Tex. Transportation Code § 522.093 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 522 / Section 522.093
§ 522.093. SELF-CERTIFICATION OF MEDICAL STATUS.
Status: in_force

The department shall remove the commercial driver's license privilege from the holder of a commercial driver's license or a commercial learner's permit if the holder:

(1) fails to provide the department a self-certification of operating status; or

(2) fails to provide and maintain with the department a current medical examiner's certificate that is required based on the self-certification.
Tex. Business Organizations Code § 3.051 — TX Code / Code bo / Chapter 3 / Section 3.051
§ 3.051. RIGHT TO AMEND CERTIFICATE OF FORMATION.
Status: in_force

(a) A filing entity may amend its certificate of formation.

(b) An amended certificate of formation may contain only provisions that:

(1) would be permitted at the time of the amendment if the amended certificate of formation were a newly filed original certificate of formation; or

(2) effect a change, exchange, reclassification, subdivision, combination, or cancellation in the membership or ownership interests or the rights of owners or members of the filing entity.
Tex. Tax Code § 23.84 — TX Code / Code tx / Chapter 23 / Section 23.84
§ 23.84. APPLICATION.
Status: in_force

(a) A person claiming the right to have his land appraised under this subchapter must apply for the right the first year he claims it. Application for appraisal under this chapter is made by filing a sworn application form with the chief appraiser for the appraisal district in which the land is located.

(b) A claimant must deliver a completed application form to the chief appraiser before May 1 and must furnish the information required by the form. For good cause shown the chief appraiser may extend the deadline for filing the application by written order for a single period not to exceed 60 days.

(c) If a claimant fails to timely file a completed application form, the land is ineligible for appraisal as provided by this subchapter for that year. Once an application is filed and appraisal under this subchapter is allowed, the land is eligible for appraisal under this subchapter during the term of the deed restriction without a new application unless the ownership of the land changes or its eligibility under this subchapter ends. However, the chief appraiser, if he has good cause to believe the land's eligibility under this subchapter has ended, may require a person allowed appraisal under this subchapter in a prior year to file a new application to confirm that the land is currently eligible under this subchapter by delivering a written notice that a new application is required, accompanied by the application form, to the person who filed the application that was previously allowed.

(d) A person whose land is allowed appraisal under this subchapter shall notify the appraisal office in writing before May 1 after eligibility of the land under this subchapter ends.

(e) If the chief appraiser discovers that appraisal under this subchapter has been erroneously allowed in any one of the five preceding years, the chief appraiser shall add the difference between the appraised value of the land under this subchapter and the market value of the land if it had not been restricted to recreational, park, or scenic uses to the appraisal roll as provided by Section 25.21 of this code for other property that escapes taxation.

(f) The comptroller in prescribing the contents of the application forms shall ensure that each form requires a claimant to furnish the information necessary to determine the validity of the claim and that the form requires the claimant to state that the land for which he claims appraisal under this subchapter will be used exclusively for recreational, park, or scenic uses in the current year.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8003.101 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8003 / Section 8003.101
§ 8003.101. 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. Water Code § 49.193 — TX Code / Code wa / Chapter 49 / Section 49.193
§ 49.193. FINANCIAL REPORTS.
Status: in_force

The district's depository, the district's treasurer, and the district's bookkeeper, if any, who receives or has control over any district funds shall keep a full and itemized account of district funds in its, his, or her possession. Such itemized accounts and records shall be available for audit.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8340.103 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8340 / Section 8340.103
§ 8340.103. AUTHORITY FOR ROAD PROJECTS.
Status: in_force

(a) Under Section 52, Article III, Texas Constitution, the district may design, acquire, construct, finance, issue bonds for, improve, and convey to this state, a county, or a municipality for operation and maintenance macadamized, graveled, or paved roads described by Section 54.234, Water Code, or improvements, including storm drainage, in aid of those roads.

(b) The district may exercise the powers provided by this section without submitting a petition to or obtaining approval from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality as required by Section 54.234, Water Code.
Tex. Education Code § 54.5085 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 54 / Section 54.5085
§ 54.5085. MEDICAL SERVICES FEE; TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY SYSTEM.
Status: in_force

(a) The board of regents of the Texas Woman's University System may charge each student registered at a component institution of the system a medical services fee not to exceed $55 for each semester of the regular term or 12-week summer session and not to exceed $25 for each six-week or shorter term of the summer session.

(b) Before the board imposes or increases a fee charged at a component institution under this section, the board shall consider the recommendations of a student fee advisory committee established by the president of the institution. A majority of the members of the advisory committee must be students appointed by the presiding officer of the student governing body of the institution and the remainder of the members must be appointed by the president of the institution. The board may increase the amount of the fee by an amount that is more than 10 percent of the amount imposed in the preceding academic year only if that increase is approved by a majority vote of those students of the institution participating in a general election called for that purpose.

(c) A medical services fee charged at a component institution under this section may be used only to provide medical services to students registered at the institution.

(d) A medical services fee charged under this section is in addition to any other fee the board is authorized by law to charge.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8132.154 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8132 / Section 8132.154
§ 8132.154. POWERS AND DUTIES OF NEW DISTRICTS.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), each new district created under this subchapter has the powers and duties of the original district under this chapter, including the powers and duties under general law applicable to municipal utility districts that relate to the imposition of a tax or the issuance of bonds.

(b) A new district does not have the power to divide into new districts.

(c) A new district shall pay its proportionate share of any obligations of the original district in accordance with the resolution dividing the district. The new districts may pay debts of the original district from district contributions or from the proceeds resulting from the imposition of a tax, assessments on the land in the district, or district revenue.

(d) A new district may contract with the other new district for the provision of water or wastewater or regarding any other matter the boards of directors of the districts consider appropriate.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1075.101 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1075 / Section 1075.101
§ 1075.101. DISTRICT RESPONSIBILITY.
Status: in_force

The district has full responsibility for:

(1) operating all hospital facilities for providing medical and hospital care of indigent persons in the district; and

(2) providing medical and hospital care for the district's needy inhabitants.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8444.002 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8444 / Section 8444.002
§ 8444.002. NATURE OF DISTRICT.
Status: in_force

The district is a municipal utility district created under Section 59, Article XVI, Texas Constitution.
Tex. Business Organizations Code § 200.268 — TX Code / Code bo / Chapter 200 / Section 200.268
§ 200.268. PROCEDURES IN BYLAWS RELATING TO PROXIES.
Status: in_force

A real estate investment trust may establish in the bylaws of the real estate investment trust procedures consistent with this code for determining the validity of proxies and determining whether shares held of record by a bank, broker, or other nominee are represented at a meeting of shareholders. The procedures may incorporate rules of and determinations made by a self-regulatory organization regulating that bank, broker, or other nominee.
Tex. Insurance Code § 151.005 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 151 / Section 151.005
§ 151.005. RELIANCE ON INFORMATION PROVIDED.
Status: in_force

The information required under Section 151.003 must be accurate, and a person who receives the information under Section 151.003 or 151.004 may justifiably rely on the information to decide whether to enter into the construction contract.
Tex. Government Code § 432.130 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 432 / Section 432.130
§ 432.130. DESERTION.
Status: in_force

(a) A member of the state military forces is guilty of desertion if the member:

(1) without authority goes or remains absent from his unit, organization, or place of duty with intent to remain away permanently;

(2) quits his unit, organization, or place of duty with intent to avoid hazardous duty or to shirk important service; or

(3) without being regularly separated from one of the state military forces, enlists or accepts an appointment in the same or another of the state military forces, or in one of the armed forces of the United States, without fully disclosing the fact that he has not been regularly separated.

(b) A commissioned officer of the state military forces who, after tender of his resignation and before notice of its acceptance, quits his post or proper duties without leave and with intent to remain away permanently is guilty of desertion.

(c) A person found guilty of desertion or attempt to desert shall be punished as a court-martial directs.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1093.251 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1093 / Section 1093.251
§ 1093.251. IMPOSITION OF AD VALOREM TAX.
Status: in_force

(a) The board shall impose a tax on all property in the district subject to district taxation.

(b) The board shall impose the tax to:

(1) pay the interest on and create a sinking fund for bonds or other obligations issued or assumed by the district for hospital purposes;

(2) provide for the operation and maintenance of the district and hospital system;

(3) make improvements and additions to the hospital system; and

(4) acquire necessary sites for the hospital system by purchase, lease, or condemnation.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 1072.023 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 1072 / Section 1072.023
§ 1072.023. TEMPORARY OFFICERS.
Status: in_force

(a) The temporary board shall elect a president and a vice president from among the temporary directors.

(b) The temporary board shall appoint a secretary, who need not be a temporary director.

(c) The temporary board shall fill a vacancy in a board office for the remainder of the unexpired term.