Tex. Gov't Code § 2058.001 · Chapter 2058. RECOGNITION OF FEDERAL CENSUS
GOVERNMENTAL RECOGNITION OF AND ACTION ON FEDERAL CENSUS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A governmental entity may not recognize or act on a report or publication, in any form, of a federal decennial census, in whole or in part, before September 1 of the year after the calendar year during which the census was taken.
(b) A governmental entity shall recognize and act on a published report or count relating to a federal decennial census and released by the director of the Bureau of the Census of the United States Department of Commerce on the later of:
(1) September 1 of the year after the calendar year during which the census was taken; or
(2) the first day of the first calendar month occurring after the 150th day after the date of the publication of the report or count.
(c) In this section, "governmental entity" means the state or an agency or political subdivision of the state.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 268, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.
Amended by:
Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 682 (H.B. 2025), Sec. 1, eff. June 15, 2021.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.2058.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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