reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
TX Govt Code § 490C.102 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle F - Commerce and Industrial Development|Chapter 490C - Promotion of Texas Manufactured Products|Subchapter C. Enforcement|Section 490C.102. Suspension or Forfeiture of Right to Use Logo

Sec. 490C.102.  SUSPENSION OR FORFEITURE OF RIGHT TO USE LOGO.  (a)  The office may temporarily suspend or permanently forfeit the right of a person who violates this chapter to use the logo of the Genuine Texas program.(b)  Before suspending or forfeiting a person's right to use the logo, the office may consider the circumstances and seriousness of the violation, any efforts by the person to correct the violation, and whether the person previously has violated this chapter.|Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 337 (H.B. 3446), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2007.|
TX Govt Code § 490C.103 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle F - Commerce and Industrial Development|Chapter 490C - Promotion of Texas Manufactured Products|Subchapter C. Enforcement|Section 490C.103. Administrative Penalty

Sec. 490C.103.  ADMINISTRATIVE PENALTY.  The office may impose an administrative penalty not to exceed $500 against a person who violates this chapter.  A proceeding to impose the administrative penalty is a contested case under Chapter 2001.|Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 337 (H.B. 3446), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2007.|
TX Govt Code § 490C.104 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle F - Commerce and Industrial Development|Chapter 490C - Promotion of Texas Manufactured Products|Subchapter C. Enforcement|Section 490C.104. Civil Penalty

Sec. 490C.104.  CIVIL PENALTY.  A person who violates this chapter is subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $500 for each violation.|Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 337 (H.B. 3446), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2007.|
TX Govt Code § 490C.105 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle F - Commerce and Industrial Development|Chapter 490C - Promotion of Texas Manufactured Products|Subchapter C. Enforcement|Section 490C.105. Calculating Amount of Administrative or Civil Penalty

Sec. 490C.105.  CALCULATING AMOUNT OF ADMINISTRATIVE OR CIVIL PENALTY.  (a)  Each day that a violation continues may be considered a separate violation for purposes of an administrative or civil penalty under this subchapter.(b)  The amount of an administrative or civil penalty must be based on:(1)  the seriousness of the violation, including the nature, circumstances, extent, and gravity of the violation;(2)  the history of previous violations;(3)  the amount necessary to deter a future violation;(4)  efforts by the person to correct the violation;  and(5)  any other matter that justice may require.|Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 337 (H.B. 3446), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2007.|
TX Govt Code § 490C.106 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle F - Commerce and Industrial Development|Chapter 490C - Promotion of Texas Manufactured Products|Subchapter C. Enforcement|Section 490C.106. Enforcement of Administrative or Civil Penalty

Sec. 490C.106.  ENFORCEMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE OR CIVIL PENALTY.  (a)  The enforcement of an administrative penalty under this section may be stayed during the time the order is under judicial review if the person pays the penalty to the clerk of the court or files a supersedeas bond with the court in the amount of the penalty.  A person who cannot afford to pay the penalty or file the bond may stay the enforcement by filing an affidavit in the manner required by the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure for a party who cannot afford to file security for costs, subject to the right of the office to contest the affidavit as provided by those rules.(b)  At the request of the office, the attorney general or the county attorney or district attorney of the county in which the violation is alleged to have occurred may file suit to collect the civil penalty.|Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 337 (H.B. 3446), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2007.|
TX Govt Code § 490C.107 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle F - Commerce and Industrial Development|Chapter 490C - Promotion of Texas Manufactured Products|Subchapter C. Enforcement|Section 490C.107. Deposit of Money

Sec. 490C.107.  DEPOSIT OF MONEY.  An administrative or civil penalty collected under this subchapter shall be deposited to the credit of the general revenue fund.|Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 337 (H.B. 3446), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2007.|
TX Govt Code § 490C.108 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle F - Commerce and Industrial Development|Chapter 490C - Promotion of Texas Manufactured Products|Subchapter C. Enforcement|Section 490C.108. Injunctive Relief

Sec. 490C.108.  INJUNCTIVE RELIEF.  (a)  At the request of the office, the attorney general or the county or district attorney of the county in which the alleged violation is threatened to occur or is occurring may file suit for the appropriate injunctive relief to prevent or abate a violation of this chapter.(b)  Venue for an action brought under this section is in Travis County.|Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 337 (H.B. 3446), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2007.|
TX Govt Code § 495.001 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 495 - Contracts for Correctional Facilities and Services|Subchapter A. Contracts With Private Vendors and Commissioners Courts|Section 495.001. Authority to Contract

Sec. 495.001.  AUTHORITY TO CONTRACT.  (a)  The board may contract with a private vendor or with the commissioners court of a county for the financing, construction, operation, maintenance, or management of a secure correctional facility.(b)  A facility operated, maintained, and managed under this subchapter by a private vendor or county must:(1)  hold not more than an average daily population of 1,150 inmates;(2)  comply with federal constitutional standards and applicable court orders; and(3)  receive and retain, as an individual facility, accreditation from the American Correctional Association.(c)  A facility authorized by this subchapter may be located on private land or on land owned by the state or a political subdivision of the state.  The board may accept land donated for that purpose.(d)  The population requirements imposed by Subsection (b)(1) do not apply to a facility that is under construction or completed before April 14, 1987.(e)  The board shall give priority to entering contracts under this subchapter that will provide the institutional division with secure regionally based correctional facilities designed to successfully reintegrate inmates into society through preparole, prerelease, work release, and prison industries programs.(f)  Notwithstanding Subsection (b)(1), a facility that before December 1, 1991, was operated, maintained, and managed under this subchapter by a private vendor or county may not hold more than an average daily population of 500 inmates, unless the commissioners court of the county in which the facility is located expresses in a resolution on the subject that the limit on population imposed by this subsection should not apply to the facility.|Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Renumbered from Sec. 494.001 and amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.  Amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., 2nd C.S., ch. 10, Sec. 2.01, eff. Dec. 1, 1991.Amended by: Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 601 (H.B. 198), Sec. 1, eff. June 15, 2007.|
TX Govt Code § 495.002 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 495 - Contracts for Correctional Facilities and Services|Subchapter A. Contracts With Private Vendors and Commissioners Courts|Section 495.002. Inmates

Sec. 495.002.  INMATES.  The institutional division may confine only minimum or medium security inmates in a facility authorized by this subchapter.  An inmate confined in a facility authorized by this subchapter remains in the legal custody of the institutional division .|Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Renumbered from Sec. 494.002 and amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.|
TX Govt Code § 495.004 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 495 - Contracts for Correctional Facilities and Services|Subchapter A. Contracts With Private Vendors and Commissioners Courts|Section 495.004. Limitation on Authority Over Inmates

Sec. 495.004.  LIMITATION ON AUTHORITY OVER INMATES.  A private vendor or county operating under a contract authorized by this subchapter may not:(1)  compute inmate release and parole eligibility dates;(2)  award good conduct time;(3)  approve an inmate for work, medical, or temporary furlough or for preparole transfer;  or(4)  classify an inmate or place an inmate in less restrictive custody than the custody ordered by the institutional division.|Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Renumbered from Sec. 494.004 and amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.|
TX Govt Code § 495.005 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 495 - Contracts for Correctional Facilities and Services|Subchapter A. Contracts With Private Vendors and Commissioners Courts|Section 495.005. Civil Liability

Sec. 495.005.  CIVIL LIABILITY.  A private vendor operating under a contract authorized by this subchapter may not claim sovereign immunity in a suit arising from the services performed under the contract by the private vendor or county.  This section does not deprive the private vendor or the state of the benefit of any law limiting exposure to liability, setting a limit on damages, or establishing a defense to liability.|Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01 eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Renumbered from Sec. 494.005 by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.|
TX Govt Code § 495.006 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 495 - Contracts for Correctional Facilities and Services|Subchapter A. Contracts With Private Vendors and Commissioners Courts|Section 495.006. Conversion of Facility

Sec. 495.006.  CONVERSION OF FACILITY.  The board may not convert a facility into a correctional facility operated by a private vendor or by a county if, before April 14, 1987, the facility is:(1)  operated as a correctional facility by the board;  or(2)  being constructed by the board for use as a correctional facility.|Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Renumbered from Sec. 494.006 by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.|
TX Govt Code § 495.007 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 495 - Contracts for Correctional Facilities and Services|Subchapter A. Contracts With Private Vendors and Commissioners Courts|Section 495.007. Limitation

Sec. 495.007.  LIMITATION. The board may not enter into contracts under this subchapter for more than 5,580 beds.|Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., 2nd C.S., ch. 10, Sec. 2.02, eff. Dec. 1, 1991.  Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 238, Sec. 6.01, eff. May 22, 1993;  Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1188, Sec. 1.13, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.Amended by: Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 601 (H.B. 198), Sec. 2, eff. June 15, 2007.|
TX Govt Code § 495.008 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 495 - Contracts for Correctional Facilities and Services|Subchapter A. Contracts With Private Vendors and Commissioners Courts|Section 495.008. Auditing and Monitoring Contracts

Sec. 495.008.  AUDITING AND MONITORING CONTRACTS.  (a)  The department shall develop a comprehensive methodology for enhanced auditing and monitoring of all facilities operated under contract with the department that house inmates of the department and releasees under the supervision of the department.  To achieve this objective, the department shall first review existing auditing, monitoring, and oversight capabilities of the department to determine what further procedures and resources are necessary to achieve this goal.(b)  The department shall ensure that all new and renewed contracts described by Subsection (a) include:(1)  a provision that the department or a designee of the department may conduct periodic contract compliance reviews, without advance notice, to monitor vendor performance;(2)  minimum acceptable standards of performance prescribed by the department that include provisions regarding the health, safety, and welfare of inmates and releasees;(3)  a provision that if a review determines that a vendor is not in compliance with the contract, the department may require that the vendor's per diem compensation be withheld until the vendor meets contract requirements or the vendor is replaced;(4)  a provision requiring a vendor not in compliance with the contract to implement a plan of corrective action approved by the department;  and(5)  a provision under which the state is indemnified for costs of litigation and for any damages in lawsuits alleging that the health, safety, or welfare of an inmate or releasee in a contract facility is not protected.(c)  The department shall complete at least one enhanced audit for each facility described by Subsection (a), without regard to whether the facility is operated by a public or private vendor.  The enhanced audit must include an enhanced contract compliance review of any vendors hired by a community supervision and corrections department to operate a facility.(d)  The department, in conjunction with an advisory committee composed of state officials and private officials from within the industry, shall adopt rules to implement the requirements of this section.(e)  The department shall develop an appeals process, incorporated by reference into all new and renewed contracts, under which a vendor may appeal any imposed sanction under the contract, with the appeals process including the right to a formal hearing and a right to a final determination by the board.(f)  Expired.|Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 474, Sec. 5, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.|
TX Govt Code § 495.021 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 495 - Contracts for Correctional Facilities and Services|Subchapter B. Miscellaneous Contracts for Correctional Facilities and Services|Section 495.021. Lease-Purchase, Installment Contracts

Sec. 495.021.  LEASE-PURCHASE, INSTALLMENT CONTRACTS.  (a)  The board may contract with the commissioners court of a county to use, lease-purchase, purchase on an installment contract, or acquire in any other manner a secure correctional facility financed and constructed under the authority of the county.  The contract must be subject to specific appropriative authority in the General Appropriations Act, and the facility must be managed by the institutional division.(b)  A contract under this section is subject to review and approval by the Bond Review Board under the provisions of Chapter 1231 without regard to the amount or the duration of the contract.|Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Renumbered from Sec. 494.021 and amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.  Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1420, Sec. 8.237, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.|
TX Govt Code § 495.022 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 495 - Contracts for Correctional Facilities and Services|Subchapter B. Miscellaneous Contracts for Correctional Facilities and Services|Section 495.022. Contracts With Federal Government

Sec. 495.022.  CONTRACTS WITH FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.  (a)  The board may contract with the federal government for the lease of any military base or other federal facility that is not being used by the federal government.  (b)  A facility leased under this section may be used by the institutional division for the purpose of housing inmates determined by the division to be minimum security inmates.(c)  The board may not enter into a contract under this section unless funds have been appropriated specifically for the purpose of making payments on contracts authorized under this section.(d)  The board shall attempt to enter into contracts authorized by this section that will provide the institutional division with facilities located in the various parts of the state.(e)  A facility leased under this section by the board must comply with federal constitutional standards and applicable court orders.|Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Renumbered from Sec. 494.022 and amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.|
TX Govt Code § 495.023 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 495 - Contracts for Correctional Facilities and Services|Subchapter B. Miscellaneous Contracts for Correctional Facilities and Services|Section 495.023. Contracts for Diagnostic and Evaluation Services

Sec. 495.023.  CONTRACTS FOR DIAGNOSTIC AND EVALUATION SERVICES.  (a)  The institutional division shall request proposals and may award one contract to a private vendor or community supervision and corrections department to screen and diagnose, either before or after adjudications of guilt, persons who may be transferred to the division.  The term of the contract may not be for more than two years.  The institutional division shall award the contract if the division determines that:(1)  the person proposing to enter into the contract can provide psychiatric, psychological, or social evaluations of persons who are to be transferred to the division;(2)  the services provided will reduce the chances of misdiagnosis of mentally ill and mentally retarded persons who are to be transferred to the division, expedite the diagnostic process, and offer savings to the division;(3)  the quality of services offered equals or exceeds the quality of the same services provided by the division;  and(4)  the state will assume no additional liability by entering into a contract for the services.(b)  If the institutional division enters into the contract and during or at the end of the contract period determines that the diagnostic services performed under the contract are of a sufficient quality and are cost effective, the division shall submit requests for additional proposals for contracts and award one or more contracts in the same manner as provided by Subsection (a).|Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 212, Sec. 2.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.  Renumbered from Sec. 494.023 and amended by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.|
TX Govt Code § 495.024 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 495 - Contracts for Correctional Facilities and Services|Subchapter B. Miscellaneous Contracts for Correctional Facilities and Services|Section 495.024. Release of Out-of-State Inmates

Sec. 495.024.  RELEASE OF OUT-OF-STATE INMATES.  A county or a municipality or a private vendor operating a correctional facility under a contract with a county under Subchapter F, Chapter 351, Local Government Code, or a municipality under Subchapter E, Chapter 361, Local Government Code, that enters into a contract with any entity to house in this state inmates convicted of offenses committed against the laws of another state of the United States must require as a condition of the contract that each inmate to be released from custody must be released in the sending state.|Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 175, Sec. 1, eff. May 21, 1997.|
TX Govt Code § 495.025 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 495 - Contracts for Correctional Facilities and Services|Subchapter B. Miscellaneous Contracts for Correctional Facilities and Services|Section 495.025. Certain Commissary Contracts; Taste Tests

Sec. 495.025.  CERTAIN COMMISSARY CONTRACTS; TASTE TESTS.  (a)  For the purchase of commissary food goods, the department may conduct a taste test as consideration for a bid award only if, to conduct the test, the department contracts with a private marketing vendor, a university, or another independent organization that is experienced in food product evaluation and taste tests.(b) In awarding a bid for commissary food goods for which a taste test is conducted, the department may use the taste test results as not more than 30 percent of the criteria used for the bid award.(c) A contract into which the department enters under Subsection (a) must require the vendor, university, or other organization, at the expense of the vendor, university, or organization, to annually re-conduct the taste test to ensure that the product meets the original specifications of the request for proposal that resulted in the department entering a contract for the tested product.|Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1308 (S.B. 909), Sec. 20, eff. June 15, 2007.|
TX Govt Code § 495.026 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 495 - Contracts for Correctional Facilities and Services|Subchapter B. Miscellaneous Contracts for Correctional Facilities and Services|Section 495.026. Product Bundling, Bulk Purchasing, and Vendor Discounts

Sec. 495.026.  PRODUCT BUNDLING, BULK PURCHASING, AND VENDOR DISCOUNTS.  The department may provide for the practice of bundling products into categories to ensure savings through bulk purchasing, discounts for advance invoice payments, and online ordering.|Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1308 (S.B. 909), Sec. 20, eff. June 15, 2007.|
TX Govt Code § 495.028 (2021)
2021 Texas Statutes|Government Code|Title 4 - Executive Branch|Subtitle G - Corrections|Chapter 495 - Contracts for Correctional Facilities and Services|Subchapter B. Miscellaneous Contracts for Correctional Facilities and Services|Section 495.028. Implementation of Reentry and Reintegration Plan

Text of section effective on June 19, 2009, but only if a specific appropriation is provided as described by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 643, Sec. 4, which states:  This Act does not make an appropriation.  This Act takes effect only if a specific appropriation for the implementation of the Act is provided in a general appropriations act of the 81st Legislature.Sec. 495.028.  IMPLEMENTATION OF REENTRY AND REINTEGRATION PLAN.  (a)  The department may contract and coordinate with private vendors, units of local government, or other entities to implement the comprehensive reentry and reintegration plan developed under Section 501.092, including contracting to:(1)  coordinate the supervision and services provided to offenders in correctional facilities with any supervision or services provided to offenders who have been released or discharged from the correctional facility;(2)  provide offenders awaiting release or discharge with documents that are necessary after release or discharge, including identification papers, medical prescriptions, job training certificates, and referrals to services; and(3)  provide housing and structured programs, including group homes for recovering substance abusers, through which offenders are provided services immediately following release or discharge.(b)  To ensure accountability, any contract entered into under this section must contain specific performance measures that the department shall use to evaluate compliance with the terms of the contract.|Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 643 (H.B. 1711), Sec. 1, eff. June 19, 2009.|