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Tex. Occupations Code § 159.003 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 159 / Section 159.003
§ 159.003. EXCEPTIONS TO CONFIDENTIALITY IN COURT OR ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDINGS.
Status: in_force

(a) An exception to the privilege of confidentiality in a court or administrative proceeding exists:

(1) in a proceeding brought by a patient against a physician, including:

(A) a malpractice proceeding; or

(B) a criminal proceeding or license revocation proceeding in which the patient is a complaining witness and disclosure is relevant to a claim or defense of the physician;

(2) if the patient or a person authorized to act on the patient's behalf submits a written consent to the release of confidential information as provided by Section 159.005;

(3) in a proceeding to substantiate and collect on a claim for medical services provided to the patient;

(4) in a civil action or administrative proceeding, if relevant, brought by the patient or a person on the patient's behalf, if the patient or person is attempting to recover monetary damages for a physical or mental condition including the patient's death;

(5) in a disciplinary investigation or proceeding conducted under this subtitle, if the board protects the identity of any patient whose billing or medical records are examined other than a patient:

(A) for whom an exception exists under Subdivision (1); or

(B) who has submitted written consent to the release of the billing or medical records as provided by Section 159.005;

(6) in a criminal investigation of a physician in which the board is participating, or assisting in the investigation or proceeding by providing certain billing or medical records obtained from the physician, if the board protects the identity of a patient whose billing or medical records are provided in the investigation or proceeding other than a patient:

(A) for whom an exception exists under Subdivision (1); or

(B) who has submitted written consent to the release of the billing or medical records as provided by Section 159.005;

(7) in an involuntary civil commitment proceeding, proceeding for court-ordered treatment, or probable cause hearing under Chapter 462, 574, or 593, Health and Safety Code;

(8) if the patient's physical or mental condition is relevant to the execution of a will;

(9) if the information is relevant to a proceeding brought under Section 159.009;

(10) in a criminal prosecution in which the patient is a victim, witness, or defendant;

(11) to satisfy a request for billing or medical records of a deceased or incompetent person under Section 74.051(e), Civil Practice and Remedies Code; or

(12) to a court or a party to an action under a court order.

(b) This section does not authorize the release of confidential information to investigate or substantiate criminal charges against a patient.

(c) Records or communications are not discoverable under Subsection (a)(10) until the court in which the prosecution is pending makes an in camera determination as to the relevancy of the records or communications or any portion of the records or communications. That determination does not constitute a determination as to the admissibility of the information.
Tex. Government Code § 54.2506 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 54 / Section 54.2506
§ 54.2506. PROCEEDING THAT MAY BE REFERRED.
Status: in_force

A district judge, county court at law judge, or justice of the peace may refer to a judge of the criminal law magistrate court any criminal case or matter relating to a criminal case for any proceeding other than presiding over a criminal trial on the merits, whether or not the trial is before a jury.
Tex. Government Code § 814.005 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 814 / Section 814.005
§ 814.005. WAIVER OF BENEFITS.
Status: in_force

(a) A person may, on a form prescribed by and filed with the retirement system, waive all or a portion of any benefits from the retirement system to which the person is entitled. The retirement system also shall give effect as a waiver to a full or partial disclaimer executed in accordance with Chapter 240, Property Code, unless the benefit to be disclaimed is a lifetime annuity. A person may revoke a waiver of benefits in the same manner as the original waiver was made, unless the original waiver by its terms was made irrevocable.

(b) A waiver or a revocation of a waiver applies only to benefits that become payable on or after the date the document is filed.

(c) The retirement system shall transfer to the state accumulation account amounts from the appropriate benefit payment accounts not used to pay benefits because of a waiver executed under this section.

(d) The board of trustees may adopt rules for the administration of waivers under this section.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 7999.104 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 7999 / Section 7999.104
§ 7999.104. ROAD STANDARDS AND REQUIREMENTS.
Status: in_force

(a) A road project must meet all applicable construction standards, zoning and subdivision requirements, and regulations of each municipality in whose corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction the road project is located.

(b) If a road project is not located in the corporate limits or extraterritorial jurisdiction of a municipality, the road project must meet all applicable construction standards, subdivision requirements, and regulations of each county in which the road project is located.

(c) If the state will maintain and operate the road, the Texas Transportation Commission must approve the plans and specifications of the road project.
Tex. Water Code § 26.551 — TX Code / Code wa / Chapter 26 / Section 26.551
§ 26.551. DEFINITIONS.
Status: in_force

In this subchapter:

(1) "Aggregates" means any commonly recognized construction material originating from a quarry or pit by the disturbance of the surface, including dirt, soil, rock asphalt, granite, gravel, gypsum, marble, sand, stone, caliche, limestone, dolomite, rock, riprap, or other nonmineral substance. The term does not include clay or shale mined for use in manufacturing structural clay products.

(1-a) "Coke Stevenson Scenic Riverway" means the South Llano River in Kimble County, located upstream of the river's confluence with the North Llano River at the city of Junction.

(2) "John Graves Scenic Riverway" means that portion of the Brazos River Basin, and its contributing watershed, located downstream of the Morris Shepard Dam on the Possum Kingdom Reservoir in Palo Pinto County, Texas, and extending to the county line between Parker and Hood Counties, Texas.

(3) "Operator" means any person engaged in or responsible for the physical operation and control of a quarry.

(4) "Overburden" means all materials displaced in an aggregates extraction operation that are not, or reasonably would not be expected to be, removed from the affected area.

(5) "Owner" means any person having title, wholly or partly, to the land on which a quarry exists or has existed.

(6) "Pit" means an open excavation from which aggregates have been or are being extracted with a depth of five feet or more below the adjacent and natural ground level.

(7) "Quarry" means the site from which aggregates for commercial sale are being or have been removed or extracted from the earth to form a pit, including the entire excavation, stripped areas, haulage ramps, and the immediately adjacent land on which the plant processing the raw materials is located. The term does not include any land owned or leased by the responsible party not being currently used in the production of aggregates for commercial sale or an excavation to mine clay or shale for use in manufacturing structural clay products.

(8) "Quarrying" means the current and ongoing surface excavation and development without shafts, drafts, or tunnels, with or without slopes, for the extraction of aggregates for commercial sale from natural deposits occurring in the earth.

(9) "Refuse" means all waste material directly connected with the production, cleaning, or preparation of aggregates that have been produced by quarrying.

(10) "Responsible party" means the owner, operator, lessor, or lessee who is responsible for overall function and operation of a quarry required to apply for and hold a permit pursuant to this subchapter.

(11) "Water quality protection area" means a contributing watershed of a river the water quality of which is threatened by quarrying activities.

(12) "Water body" means any navigable watercourse, river, stream, or lake within the water quality protection area.
Tex. Government Code § 403.0195 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 403 / Section 403.0195
§ 403.0195. CONTRACTS FOR INFORMATION ABOUT PROPERTY RECOVERABLE BY THE STATE.
Status: in_force

(a) The comptroller may contract with a person for the receipt of information about a possible claim that the state may be entitled to pursue for the recovery of revenue or other property.

(b) In a contract under Subsection (a), the total consideration to be paid by the state:

(1) must be contingent on a recovery by the state;

(2) may not exceed five percent of the amount of the revenue or the value of the other property that the state recovers as a result of the pursuit of the claim about which the contracting person provided information; and

(3) may be limited by agreement not to exceed a specified, absolute dollar amount.

(c) Consideration may not be paid by the state under a contract executed under Subsection (a) if, at the time the contract is executed or within three months after the date of execution and by means other than disclosure under the contract, a state employee has knowledge of the claim disclosed under the contract or has knowledge of a cause of action different from that disclosed under the contract but entitling the state to recover the same revenue or other property. An affidavit by a state employee claiming that knowledge under those circumstances is prima facie evidence of the knowledge and circumstances.

(d) This section does not apply to or affect property that is recoverable by the state under Chapters 71 through 75, Property Code.

(e) If the state recovers property in connection with a contract executed under this section and payment of the contractual consideration is not prohibited by Subsection (c), an amount not to exceed five percent of the amount of revenue or proceeds from the sale of property recovered shall be deposited to the credit of the comptroller's operating fund for payment of the consideration. The balance of the revenue or proceeds from the sale of property recovered shall be deposited to the credit of the general revenue fund or to any special fund as required by law.
Tex. Education Code § 131.006 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 131 / Section 131.006
§ 131.006. APPROPRIATIONS; GRANTS.
Status: in_force

(a) The governing board of the college may receive appropriations for the college's operations only if the board operates the college in compliance with this chapter.

(b) The board may accept gifts, grants, or donations of money or property given to the college for the college's exclusive use in carrying out the purposes of this subchapter.

(c) The board may expend appropriated funds for maintenance and operation, including the maintenance and operation of student housing and food service, unless the funds are specifically restricted to another purpose by the appropriation.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 9013.202 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 9013 / Section 9013.202
§ 9013.202. HEARING ON CHANGE IN METHOD OF TAXATION; LIMITATION.
Status: in_force

(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the district may call a hearing to consider changing the method of taxation.

(b) Once district bonds are approved by the attorney general or district court, the district may not change its plan of taxation.
Tex. Education Code § 48.101 — TX Code / Code ed / Chapter 48 / Section 48.101
§ 48.101. SMALL AND MID-SIZED DISTRICT ALLOTMENT.
Status: in_force

(a) Small and mid-sized districts are entitled to an annual allotment in accordance with this section. In this section:

(1) "AA" is the district's annual allotment per student in average daily attendance;

(2) "ADA" is the number of students in average daily attendance for which the district is entitled to an allotment under Section 48.051, other than students in average daily attendance who do not reside in the district and are enrolled in a full-time virtual program; and

(3) "BA" is the basic allotment determined under Section 48.051.

(b) A school district that has fewer than 1,600 students in average daily attendance is entitled to an annual allotment for each student in average daily attendance based on the following formula:

(c) A school district that offers a kindergarten through grade 12 program and has less than 5,000 students in average daily attendance is entitled to an annual allotment for each student in average daily attendance based on the formula, of the following formulas, that results in the greatest annual allotment:

(1) the formula in Subsection (b), if the district is eligible for that formula; or

(2) AA = ((5,000 - ADA) X .00003) X BA.

(d) Instead of the allotment under Subsection (b) or (c)(1), a school district that has fewer than 300 students in average daily attendance and is the only school district located in and operating in a county is entitled to an annual allotment for each student in average daily attendance based on the following formula:
Tex. Utilities Code § 303.0002 — TX Code / Code ut / Chapter 303 / Section 303.0002
§ 303.0002. APPLICABILITY.
Status: in_force

Except as provided by Section 303.0004(c), this chapter applies only to an agreement that authorizes a grantee to operate a battery energy storage facility that is not subject to Chapter 301 or 302.
Tex. Government Code § 659.146 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 659 / Section 659.146
§ 659.146. ELIGIBILITY OF CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS IN GENERAL; ELIGIBILITY OF FEDERATIONS AND FUNDS FOR STATEWIDE PARTICIPATION.
Status: repealed

(a) To be eligible to participate in a state employee charitable campaign, a charitable organization must:

(1) be governed by a voluntary board of citizens that meets at least twice each year to set policy and manage the affairs of the organization;

(2) if the organization's annual budget:

(A) does not exceed $250,000, provide a completed Internal Revenue Service Form 990 and an accountant's review that offers full and open disclosure of the organization's internal operations; or

(B) exceeds $250,000, be audited annually in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; and

(3) not spend more than 25 percent of its annual revenue for administrative and fund-raising expenses.

(b) Repealed by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1310, Sec. 121(10).

(c) A federation or fund that seeks statewide participation in a state employee charitable campaign must apply on behalf of itself and its affiliated agencies to the state policy committee during the annual eligibility determination period specified by the committee. The state policy committee shall review each application and may approve a federation or fund for statewide participation only if the federation or fund qualifies as a statewide charitable organization. The state policy committee may approve an affiliated charitable organization for statewide participation only if the organization qualifies as a statewide charitable organization.

(d) The state policy committee may use outside expertise and resources available to it to assess the eligibility of a charitable organization that seeks to participate in a state employee charitable campaign.

(e) An appeal from a decision of the state policy committee shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by the committee. The appeals process must permit a charitable organization that is not approved for statewide participation to apply for participation in the state employee charitable campaign only in a local campaign area.

(f) The state policy committee shall develop guidelines for evaluation of applications based on eligibility criteria under this section and Section 659.150. The state policy committee shall make the guidelines publicly available.

(g) A federation or organization that participated in the state employee charitable campaign before June 20, 2003, is not barred from participation in the program, both in terms of actual participation and the purposes for which the contributions are used, solely as a result of changes made by Sections 35, 36, 37, and 121(9) and (11), Chapter 1310 (H.B. 2425), Acts of the 78th Legislature, Regular Session, 2003. This subsection does not excuse a federation or organization from compliance with any other law, rule, or state policy.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 21.103 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 21 / Section 21.103
§ 21.103. TERM.
Status: in_force

Except as provided by Section 21.102(b), a director serves a term of four years.
Tex. Insurance Code § 32.153 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 32 / Section 32.153
§ 32.153. COMPLIANCE WITH OPEN MEETINGS ACT.
Status: in_force

A department advisory committee must comply with Chapter 551, Government Code.
Tex. Finance Code § 351.053 — TX Code / Code fi / Chapter 351 / Section 351.053
§ 351.053. AREA OF BUSINESS; PROPERTY TAX LOANS BY MAIL OR ONLINE.
Status: in_force

(a) A property tax lender is not limited to making property tax loans to residents of the community in which the office for which the license or other authority is granted is located.

(b) A property tax lender may make, negotiate, arrange, and collect property tax loans by mail or online from a licensed office.
Tex. Code of Criminal Procedure § 7B.005 — TX Code / Code cr / Chapter 7B / Section 7B.005
§ 7B.005. CONDITIONS SPECIFIED BY PROTECTIVE ORDER.
Status: in_force

(a) In a protective order issued under this subchapter, the court may:

(1) order the alleged offender to take action as specified by the court that the court determines is necessary or appropriate to prevent or reduce the likelihood of future harm to the applicant or a member of the applicant's family or household; or

(2) prohibit the alleged offender from:

(A) communicating:

(i) directly or indirectly with the applicant or any member of the applicant's family or household in a threatening or harassing manner; or

(ii) in any manner with the applicant or any member of the applicant's family or household except through the applicant's attorney or a person appointed by the court, if the court finds good cause for the prohibition;

(B) going to or near the residence, place of employment or business, or child-care facility or school of the applicant or any member of the applicant's family or household;

(C) engaging in conduct directed specifically toward the applicant or any member of the applicant's family or household, including following the person, that is reasonably likely to harass, annoy, alarm, abuse, torment, or embarrass the person;

(D) possessing a firearm, unless the alleged offender is a peace officer, as defined by Section 1.07, Penal Code, actively engaged in employment as a sworn, full-time paid employee of a state agency or political subdivision; and

(E) tracking or monitoring personal property or a motor vehicle in the possession of the applicant or of a member of the applicant's family or household, without the applicant's effective consent, including by:

(i) using a tracking application on a personal electronic device in the possession of the applicant or the family or household member or using a tracking device; or

(ii) physically following the applicant or the family or household member or causing another to physically follow the applicant or member.

(b) In a protective order that includes a condition described by Subsection (a)(2)(B), the court shall specifically describe each prohibited location and the minimum distance from the location, if any, that the alleged offender must maintain. This subsection does not apply to a protective order with respect to which the court has received a request to maintain confidentiality of information revealing the locations.

(c) In a protective order, the court may suspend a license to carry a handgun issued under Section 411.177, Government Code, that is held by the alleged offender.
Tex. Government Code § 2306.513 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 2306 / Section 2306.513
§ 2306.513. HOUSING FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS.
Status: repealed

(a) The board shall adopt rules to achieve occupancy by individuals with special needs of at least five percent of the units in each multifamily housing development.

(b) Subsection (a) applies only to a multifamily housing development that contains at least 20 units and is financed by bonds issued under this chapter.

(c) If a survey that is conducted by the housing sponsor and verified by the housing finance division reveals that there is not sufficient need for housing for individuals with special needs in the area in which the development will be built or renovated to justify building or renovating and reserving at least five percent of the units for individuals with special needs, the department may, on a showing of good cause by the housing sponsor, lower the requirements to correspond to the amount of need found by the housing sponsor.

(d) Repealed by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 76, Sec. 5.78, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.

(e) Repealed by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 980, Sec. 54, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Tex. Insurance Code § 1203.153 — TX Code / Code in / Chapter 1203 / Section 1203.153
§ 1203.153. UNIFORM COORDINATION OF BENEFITS QUESTIONNAIRE REQUIRED.
Status: in_force

Each health benefit plan issuer that issues a health benefit plan that includes a coordination of benefits provision shall use the uniform coordination of benefits questionnaire established under Section 1203.152 and make the questionnaire available to health care providers as appropriate.
Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 62.012 — TX Code / Code pw / Chapter 62 / Section 62.012
§ 62.012. WRITTEN CONSENT TO HUNT OR TARGET SHOOT REQUIRED.
Status: repealed

(a) This section applies only to a county having a population of 3.3 million or more. This section does not apply to a person hunting or target shooting on a public or private shooting range.

(b) Except as provided by Subsection (d) of this section, no person possessing a firearm may hunt a wild animal or wild bird, or engage in target shooting on land owned by another unless the person has in his immediate possession the written consent of the owner of the land to hunt or engage in target shooting on the land.

(c) To be valid, the written consent required by Subsection (b) of this section must:

(1) contain the name of the person permitted to hunt or engage in target shooting on the land;

(2) identify the land on which hunting or target shooting is permitted;

(3) be signed by the owner of the land or by an agent, lessee, or legal representative of the owner; and

(4) show the address and phone number of the person signing the consent.

(d) The owner of the land on which hunting or target shooting occurs, the landowner's lessee, agent, or legal representative, and a person hunting or target shooting with the landowner or the landowner's lessee, agent, or legal representative are not required to have in their possession the written consent required by Subsection (b) of this section.

(e) Repealed by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 267, art. 3, Sec. 110, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.
Tex. Water Code § 63.161 — TX Code / Code wa / Chapter 63 / Section 63.161
§ 63.161. UNITED STATES PERFORMING DUTIES OF ENGINEER.
Status: in_force

Instead of or in addition to employing an engineer, the commission may adopt any survey of a river, creek, canal, stream, bay, or waterway previously made by the United States and may arrange for surveys, examinations, and investigations of proposed improvements and for supervision of the work of improvement by the United States.