Tex. Gov't Code § 2009.005 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) This chapter does not waive immunity from suit and does not affect a waiver of immunity from suit contained in other law.
(b) The state's sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution is not waived by this chapter.
(c) Nothing in this chapter authorizes binding arbitration as a method of alternative dispute resolution.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 934, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997. Renumbered from Government Code Sec. 2008.005 by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 62, Sec. 19.01(55), eff. Sept. 1, 1999. Renumbered from Government Code Sec. 2008.005 by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1352, Sec. 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.2009.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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