Tex. Gov't Code § 2259.031 · Subchapter B. SELF-INSURANCE FUND
ESTABLISHMENT OF FUND.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A governmental unit may establish a self-insurance fund to protect the governmental unit and its officers, employees, and agents from any insurable risk or hazard.
(b) The governmental unit may:
(1) issue public securities and use the proceeds for all or part of the fund; or
(2) use any money available to the governmental unit for the fund.
(c) The governmental unit may purchase reinsurance for a risk covered through the fund.
(d) Any law, including a regulation, requiring insurance may be satisfied by coverage provided through the fund.
(e) Any law, including a regulation, requiring a certificate of insurance or an insurance agent's signature, countersignature, or approval may be satisfied by a certificate of coverage issued on behalf of the governmental unit demonstrating that coverage is provided through the fund.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 227, Sec. 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 428 (S.B. 531), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2013.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.2259.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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