Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 14.001 · Chapter 14. INMATE LITIGATION
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter:
(1) "Claim" means a cause of action governed by this chapter.
(2) "Department" means the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
(3) "Inmate" means a person housed in a secure correctional facility.
(4) "Secure correctional facility" has the meaning assigned by Section 1.07, Penal Code.
(5) "Trust account" means an inmate's trust account administered by the department under Section 501.014, Government Code, by a facility under contract with the department, or by a jail.
(6) "Unsworn declaration" means a document executed in accordance with Chapter 132.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 378, Sec. 2, eff. June 8, 1995.
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.14.htm
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- 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
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