Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 139.002 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
SCOPE OF CHAPTER.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
This chapter applies only to a suit on a claim for damages arising from personal injury:
(1) to an incapacitated person; or
(2) in which the personal injury has resulted in the substantial disablement of the injured person.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1228, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CP/htm/CP.139.htm
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