Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 65.008 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
GENERAL IMMUNITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The following persons are immune from liability for good faith conduct under this chapter:
(1) a criminal justice official;
(2) an employee or officer of the department, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, the Board of Pardons and Paroles, or a local law enforcement authority or law enforcement agency;
(3) an employee or officer of a community supervision and corrections department or a juvenile probation department; and
(4) a member of the judiciary.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 935 (S.B. 1518), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2023.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/CR/htm/CR.65.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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