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Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3889.108 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3889 / Section 3889.108
§ 3889.108. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
Status: in_force

(a) The district may engage in activities that accomplish the economic development purposes of the district.

(b) The district may establish and provide for the administration of one or more programs to promote state or local economic development and to stimulate business and commercial activity in the district, including programs to:

(1) make loans and grants of public money; and

(2) provide district personnel and services.

(c) The district may create economic development programs and exercise the economic development powers that:

(1) Chapter 380, Local Government Code, provides to a municipality; and

(2) Subchapter A, Chapter 1509, Government Code, provides to a municipality.
Tex. Government Code § 771.007 — TX Code / Code gv / Chapter 771 / Section 771.007
§ 771.007. REIMBURSEMENT AND ADVANCEMENT OF COSTS.
Status: in_force

(a) An agency that receives services or resources under this chapter shall reimburse each agency providing the services or resources the actual cost of providing the services or resources, or the nearest practicable estimate of that cost. Reimbursement is not required if the services or resources are provided:

(1) for national defense or disaster relief; or

(2) in cooperative efforts, proposed by the governor, to promote the economic development of the state.

(b) An agency that receives services or resources under this chapter may advance federal funds to an agency providing the services or resources if the agency receiving the services or resources determines that the advance would facilitate the implementation of a federally funded program.

(c) An agency that receives services or resources under this chapter may advance funds to the agency providing the services or resources if an advance is necessary to enable the providing agency to provide the services or resources. If an advance is made under this section, the agencies shall ensure after the services or resources are provided that the providing agency has received only sufficient funds to reimburse its total costs. An advance of funds is a reimbursement for the purpose of Section 771.008.
Tex. Parks and Wildlife Code § 82.303 — TX Code / Code pw / Chapter 82 / Section 82.303
§ 82.303. PENALTIES.
Status: in_force

A person violating any provision of this subchapter commits an offense that is a Class C Parks and Wildlife Code misdemeanor.
Tex. Tax Code § 41.11 — TX Code / Code tx / Chapter 41 / Section 41.11
§ 41.11. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER OF CHANGE IN RECORDS.
Status: in_force

(a) Not later than the date the appraisal review board approves the appraisal records as provided by Section 41.12, the secretary of the board shall deliver written notice to a property owner of any change in the records that is ordered by the board as provided by this subchapter and that will result in an increase in the tax liability of the property owner. An owner who receives a notice as provided by this section shall be entitled to protest such action as provided by Section 41.44(a)(2).

(b) The secretary shall include in the notice a brief explanation of the procedure for protesting the change.

(c) Failure to deliver notice to a property owner as required by this section nullifies the change in the records to the extent the change is applicable to that property owner.
Tex. Utilities Code § 62.001 — TX Code / Code ut / Chapter 62 / Section 62.001
§ 62.001. APPLICABILITY OF CHAPTER.
Status: in_force

This chapter does not apply to a cable company.
Tex. Labor Code § 213.009 — TX Code / Code la / Chapter 213 / Section 213.009
§ 213.009. COMMISSION ENFORCEMENT OF OUT-OF-STATE JUDGMENT.
Status: in_force

(a) A qualified attorney who is a regular salaried employee of the commission may represent an employment security agency of another state in a proceeding in a court in this state to collect a contribution, a penalty, interest, or a court cost for which liability has been incurred by an employing unit under an unemployment compensation law or unemployment insurance law of the other state, if:

(1) the liability has been reduced to judgment in a court of record in the state of the requesting agency; and

(2) the unemployment compensation law or unemployment insurance law of the requesting state provides for a similar action on behalf of the commission by the requesting state agency.

(b) The venue for a proceeding under this section is the same as the venue for an action to collect an overdue contribution, penalty, or interest due under this subtitle.
Tex. Local Government Code § 118.142 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 118 / Section 118.142
§ 118.142. RETURNED CHECK.
Status: in_force

The fee for "Returned check" under Section 118.141 is for a check that is presented to a county in payment of any service, fee, claim, registration, fine, or other cost of the county and is returned by the depository bank or another bank for any reason considered to be the fault of the drawer, including:

(1) insufficient funds to cover the check;

(2) closed account;

(3) unauthorized signature; or

(4) drawn on uncollected funds.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8199.101 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8199 / Section 8199.101
§ 8199.101. 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 § 8468.202 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8468 / Section 8468.202
§ 8468.202. TAXES FOR BONDS.
Status: in_force

At the time the district issues bonds payable wholly or partly from ad valorem taxes, the board shall provide for the annual imposition of a continuing direct ad valorem tax, without limit as to rate or amount, while all or part of the bonds are outstanding as required and in the manner provided by Sections 54.601 and 54.602, Water Code.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8888.167 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8888 / Section 8888.167
§ 8888.167. CONDITIONAL APPROVAL OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.
Status: in_force

(a) The commission may grant conditional approval of a construction project or waive a requirement of any law or commission rule with respect to a construction project if the conditional approval or waiver does not compromise public health or safety.

(b) If the commission grants conditional approval of or a waiver for a construction project, the authority shall make any subsequent changes required by the commission in the construction project necessary to protect the public health or safety.

(c) The commission may not require that the authority enter into a contract with another person as a condition for approving an authority construction project. The authority may meet the authority's obligations under commission rules that require certain issues to be addressed by contract by adopting rules that address the commission issues and that allocate responsibility as necessary between the authority and a person in the authority.
Tex. Transportation Code § 223.242 — TX Code / Code tn / Chapter 223 / Section 223.242
§ 223.242. SCOPE OF AND LIMITATIONS ON CONTRACTS.
Status: in_force

(a) Notwithstanding the requirements of Subchapter A and Chapter 2254, Government Code, the department may use the design-build method for the design, construction, expansion, extension, related capital maintenance, rehabilitation, alteration, or repair of a highway project.

(b) A design-build contract under this subchapter may not grant to a private entity:

(1) a leasehold interest in the highway project; or

(2) the right to operate or retain revenue from the operation of a toll project.

(b-1) A design-build contract under this subchapter may include a maintenance agreement requiring a design-build contractor to maintain a project for an initial term of not longer than five years. The maintenance agreement may authorize the department, in its sole discretion, to exercise options extending the term of the maintenance agreement for additional periods beyond the initial maintenance term with each additional period being not longer than five years. The department shall obtain pricing for the maintenance work for each maintenance term. The department may require separate pricing for the maintenance work to be performed for each year of a maintenance term.

(c) In using the design-build method and in entering into a contract for the services of a design-build contractor, the department and the design-build contractor shall follow the procedures and requirements of this subchapter.

(d) The department may enter into a design-build contract for a highway project with a construction cost estimate of $150 million or more to the department.

(d-1) The department may not enter into more than six contracts under this section in each state fiscal biennium.

(e) Money disbursed by the department to pay engineering costs for the design of a project incurred by the design-build contractor under a design-build contract may not be included in the amounts under Section 223.041:

(1) required to be spent in a state fiscal biennium for engineering-related services; or

(2) appropriated in Strategy A.1.1, Plan/Design/Manage or Strategy A.1.2, Contracted Planning and Design of the General Appropriations Act.

(f) The department shall not use the design-build method for the construction, expansion, extension, rehabilitation, alteration, or repair of a highway project if the project is substantially designed, to the extent described by Section 223.246(a)(5), by the department or another entity other than the design-build contractor.

(g) The department shall not include more than one highway project in a design-build contract.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 401.390 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 401 / Section 401.390
§ 401.390. REMITTING PENALTY PAYMENTS; RELEASING BONDS.
Status: in_force

(a) On the date the court's judgment that an administrative penalty against a person should be reduced or not assessed becomes final, the court shall order that:

(1) the appropriate amount of any penalty payment plus accrued interest be remitted to the person not later than the 30th day after that date; or

(2) the bond be released, if a supersedeas bond has been posted.

(b) Accrued interest on amounts remitted by the department shall be paid:

(1) at a rate equal to the rate charged on loans to depository institutions by the New York Federal Reserve Bank; and

(2) for the period beginning on the date the penalty is paid to the department under Section 401.389(a) and ending on the date the penalty is remitted.
Tex. Health and Safety Code § 1001.002 — TX Code / Code hs / Chapter 1001 / Section 1001.002
§ 1001.002. AGENCY AND AGENCY FUNCTIONS.
Status: in_force

(a) In this section, "function" includes a power, duty, program, or activity and an administrative support services function associated with the power, duty, program, or activity, unless consolidated under former Section 531.02012, Government Code.

(b) The department is an agency of the state.

(c) In accordance with former Subchapter A-1, Chapter 531, Government Code, and notwithstanding any other law, the department performs only functions related to public health, including health care data collection and maintenance of the Texas Health Care Information Collection program.
Tex. Occupations Code § 1704.158 — TX Code / Code oc / Chapter 1704 / Section 1704.158
§ 1704.158. HEARING ON APPLICATION.
Status: in_force

(a) After making the determinations required by Section 1704.157, a board shall conduct a hearing on the application.

(b) During the hearing:

(1) the board may submit to the applicant or the applicant's agent any questions relevant to the board's decision on the application; and

(2) the applicant may present oral and documentary evidence.
Tex. Labor Code § 355.016 — TX Code / Code la / Chapter 355 / Section 355.016
§ 355.016. BUSINESS ENTERPRISES PROGRAM.
Status: in_force

(a) The commission is authorized to administer the Business Enterprises Program in accordance with the provisions of the Randolph-Sheppard Act (20 U.S.C. Section 107 et seq.).

(b) The commission is authorized to administer a retirement program for individuals licensed to operate vending facilities in accordance with applicable state and federal laws.

(c) A trust fund for a retirement program for individuals licensed to operate vending facilities under the Business Enterprises Program is established with the comptroller. This trust fund will be set up in the state treasury.

(d) All federal vending machine income shall be credited to this Business Enterprises Program trust fund. Vending machine income, as defined by 34 C.F.R. Section 395.1(z), means receipts (other than those of a blind vendor) from vending machine operations on federal property, after deducting the cost of goods sold (including reasonable service and maintenance costs) in accordance with customary business practices of commercial vending concerns, where the machines are operated, serviced, or maintained by, or with the approval of, a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States, or commissions paid (other than to a blind vendor) by a commercial vending concern which operates, services, and maintains vending machines on federal property for, or with the approval of, a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States.

(e) All expenditures authorized by the Randolph-Sheppard Act from federal vending revenue funds shall be paid from the Business Enterprises Program trust fund.

(f) The commission may contract with a professional management service to administer the Business Enterprises Program trust fund. In administering the trust fund, the professional management service may acquire, exchange, sell, or retain any kind of investment that a prudent investor, exercising reasonable care, skill, and caution, would acquire, exchange, sell, or retain under the circumstances, taking into consideration the investment of all the assets of the trust fund.

(g) With the approval of the comptroller, the commission may select a commercial bank, depository trust company, or other entity to serve as a custodian of the Business Enterprises Program trust fund's securities, and money realized from those securities, pending completion of an investment transaction. Money realized from those securities must be:

(1) reinvested not later than one business day after the date it is received; or

(2) deposited in the treasury not later than the fifth business day after the date it is received.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 8233.203 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 8233 / Section 8233.203
§ 8233.203. TAXES FOR BONDS.
Status: in_force

At the time bonds payable wholly or partly from ad valorem taxes are issued:

(1) the board shall impose a continuing direct annual ad valorem tax, without limit as to rate or amount, for each year that all or part of the bonds are outstanding; and

(2) the district annually shall impose an ad valorem tax on all taxable property in the district in an amount sufficient to:

(A) pay the interest on the bonds as the interest becomes due;

(B) create a sinking fund for the payment of the principal of the bonds when due or the redemption price at any earlier required redemption date; and

(C) pay the expenses of imposing the taxes.
Tex. Utilities Code § 44.002 — TX Code / Code ut / Chapter 44 / Section 44.002
§ 44.002. TEXAS GRID SECURITY COMMISSION.
Status: in_force

(a) The Texas Grid Security Commission is composed of the following members:

(1) a representative of the Texas Division of Emergency Management appointed by the chief of that division;

(2) a representative of the commission appointed by that commission;

(3) a representative of the Railroad Commission of Texas appointed by that commission;

(4) a representative of the independent organization certified under Section 39.151 for the ERCOT power region appointed by the chief executive officer of that organization;

(5) a representative of power generation companies appointed by the chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management;

(6) a representative of transmission and distribution utilities, electric cooperatives, municipally owned utilities, and river authorities appointed by the chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management; and

(7) at the discretion of the security commission's presiding officer, any other representative of a state agency, board, commission, or organized volunteer group designated by the head of that entity.

(b) The Texas Division of Emergency Management shall designate a member of the security commission to serve as presiding officer.

(c) The security commission shall convene at the call of the presiding officer.

(d) The security commission shall report to the chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management.

(e) A vacancy on the security commission is filled by appointment for the unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointment.

(f) To the extent possible, individuals appointed to the security commission must be residents of this state.

(g) The chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management may invite officials or former officials of the United States Department of Defense or Department of Homeland Security with expertise on electromagnetic pulse defense to advise the security commission.

(h) The presiding officer of the security commission or the chief of the Texas Division of Emergency Management may invite to advise the security commission any person whose expertise the security commission considers necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter, including individuals recognized as experts in the fields of law enforcement, emergency services, communications, water and sewer services, health care, financial services, agriculture, transportation, electricity markets, cybersecurity of grid control systems, electromagnetic pulse mitigation, terrestrial and solar weather, and micro-grids.
Tex. Business & Commerce Code § 509.053 — TX Code / Code bc / Chapter 509 / Section 509.053
§ 509.053. DIGITAL SERVICE PROVIDER DUTY TO PREVENT HARM TO KNOWN MINORS.
Status: in_force

(a) In relation to a known minor's use of a digital service, a digital service provider shall develop and implement a strategy to prevent the known minor's exposure to harmful material and other content that promotes, glorifies, or facilitates:

(1) suicide, self-harm, or eating disorders;

(2) substance abuse;

(3) stalking, bullying, or harassment; or

(4) grooming, trafficking, child pornography, or other sexual exploitation or abuse.

(b) A strategy developed under Subsection (a):

(1) must include:

(A) creating and maintaining a comprehensive list of harmful material or other content described by Subsection (a) to block from display to a known minor;

(B) using filtering technology and other protocols to enforce the blocking of material or content on the list under Paragraph (A);

(C) using hash-sharing technology and other protocols to identify recurring harmful material or other content described by Subsection (a);

(D) creating and maintaining a database of keywords used for filter evasion, such as identifiable misspellings, hash-tags, or identifiable homoglyphs;

(E) performing standard human-performed monitoring reviews to ensure efficacy of filtering technology;

(F) making available to users a comprehensive description of the categories of harmful material or other content described by Subsection (a) that will be filtered; and

(G) except as provided by Section 509.058, making available the digital service provider's algorithm code to independent security researchers; and

(2) may include:

(A) engaging a third party to rigorously review the digital service provider's content filtering technology;

(B) participating in industry-specific partnerships to share best practices in preventing access to harmful material or other content described by Subsection (a); or

(C) conducting periodic independent audits to ensure:

(i) continued compliance with the digital service provider's strategy; and

(ii) efficacy of filtering technology and protocols used by the digital service provider.
Tex. Human Resources Code § 42.208 — TX Code / Code hr / Chapter 42 / Section 42.208
§ 42.208. REPORTING OF INCIDENTS AND VIOLATIONS.
Status: in_force

A shelter day-care facility operating under this subchapter and each employee of that facility are subject to the reporting requirements of Section 42.063 to the same extent a licensed child-care facility and employees of licensed child-care facilities are subject to that section.
Tex. Local Government Code § 303.044 — TX Code / Code lg / Chapter 303 / Section 303.044
§ 303.044. OPEN MEETINGS; OPEN RECORDS.
Status: in_force

A corporation and its board of directors are considered to be governmental bodies under Chapters 551 and 552, Government Code.
Tex. Water Code § 60.102 — TX Code / Code wa / Chapter 60 / Section 60.102
§ 60.102. UTILITY RELOCATION.
Status: in_force

(a) If a district in the exercise of the powers conferred by this subchapter or in the exercise of the power of eminent domain or the police power requires the relocating, raising, lowering, rerouting, or changing in grade, or altering in the construction of any railroad, electric transmission line, telegraph or telephone line, conduit, pole, properties or facilities, or pipeline, the relocating, raising, lowering, rerouting, changing in grade, or altering of construction shall be done at the sole expense of the district.

(b) "Sole expense" means the actual cost of the relocation, raising, lowering, rerouting, change in grade, or alteration of construction in providing comparable replacement without enhancement of the facilities, after deducting the net salvage value derived from the old facility.
Tex. Business & Commerce Code § 9.303 — TX Code / Code bc / Chapter 9 / Section 9.303
§ 9.303. LAW GOVERNING PERFECTION AND PRIORITY OF SECURITY INTERESTS IN GOODS COVERED BY A CERTIFICATE OF TITLE.
Status: in_force

(a) This section applies to goods covered by a certificate of title, even if there is no other relationship between the jurisdiction under whose certificate of title the goods are covered and the goods or the debtor.

(b) Goods become covered by a certificate of title when a valid application for the certificate of title and the applicable fee are delivered to the appropriate authority. Goods cease to be covered by a certificate of title at the earlier of the time the certificate of title ceases to be effective under the law of the issuing jurisdiction or the time the goods become covered subsequently by a certificate of title issued by another jurisdiction.

(c) The local law of the jurisdiction under whose certificate of title the goods are covered governs perfection, the effect of perfection or nonperfection, and the priority of a security interest in goods covered by a certificate of title from the time the goods become covered by the certificate of title until the goods cease to be covered by the certificate of title.
Tex. Special District Local Laws Code § 3984.0307 — TX Code / Code sd / Chapter 3984 / Section 3984.0307
§ 3984.0307. NONPROFIT CORPORATION.
Status: in_force

(a) The board by resolution may authorize the creation of a nonprofit corporation to assist and act for the district in implementing a project or providing a service authorized by this chapter.

(b) The nonprofit corporation:

(1) has each power of and is considered to be a local government corporation created under Subchapter D, Chapter 431, Transportation Code; and

(2) may implement any project and provide any service authorized by this chapter.

(c) The board shall appoint the board of directors of the nonprofit corporation. The board of directors of the nonprofit corporation shall serve in the same manner as the board of directors of a local government corporation created under Subchapter D, Chapter 431, Transportation Code, except that a board member is not required to reside in the district.