Tex. Bus. & Com. Code § 761.001 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter:
(1) "Campus credit card marketing activity":
(A) means any activity:
(i) conducted by an agent or employee of a credit card issuer on the campus of a postsecondary educational institution; and
(ii) designed to encourage and enable students to apply for a credit card; and
(B) includes the act of placing on the campus a display or poster together with a form that can be returned to the credit card issuer as a credit card application, even if an employee or agent of the credit card issuer is not present at the display.
(2) "Credit card" means a card or device issued under an agreement by which the issuer gives to a cardholder the right to obtain credit from the issuer or another person.
(3) "Credit card issuer" means a lender, including a financial institution, or a merchant that receives applications and issues credit cards to individuals.
(4) "Governing board" means the body charged with policy direction of any postsecondary educational institution, including a board of directors, a board of regents, a board of trustees, and an independent school district board that is charged with policy direction of a public junior college.
(5) "Postsecondary educational institution" means:
(A) an institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code;
(B) a private or independent institution of higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code; or
(C) a private postsecondary educational institution as defined by Section 61.302, Education Code.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 87 (S.B. 1969), Sec. 4.014(a), eff. September 1, 2009.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.761.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 bdf48baf2f397cf4f2718b93502848c7171ffb589e000cd629edd3a854b7ef1c
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
This section cites
Provisions in this library that the text above cites, as it prints each citation. A range cited as “ss. 61.13-61.16” links its first and last provisions.
Procedural information only. Not legal advice and not a substitute for the advice of an attorney. Confirm the current text with the official publisher before relying on it.