Tex. Elec. Code § 1.019 · Chapter 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS
REQUIRED EVIDENCE OR TESTIMONY.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A party to an offense under this code may be required to furnish evidence or testimony about the offense.
(b) Evidence or testimony required to be furnished under this section, or information directly or indirectly derived from that evidence or testimony, may not be used against the party providing the evidence or testimony in a criminal case except for a prosecution of aggravated perjury or contempt.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 393, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/EL/htm/EL.1.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 977543319d56588b9f5888e5b4c82ff89568a397324a2d1910a51d214f1adfe9
- 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
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