Tex. Gov't Code § 2270.0006 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
INDEMNIFICATION OF INVESTING ENTITIES, EMPLOYEES, AND OTHERS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In a cause of action based on an action, inaction, decision, divestment, investment, company communication, report, or other determination made or taken in connection with this chapter, the state shall, without regard to whether the person performed services for compensation, indemnify and hold harmless for actual damages, court costs, and attorney's fees adjudged against, and defend:
(1) an employee, a member of the governing body, or any other officer of an investing entity;
(2) a contractor of an investing entity;
(3) a former employee, a former member of the governing body, or any other former officer of an investing entity who was an employee or officer when the act or omission on which the damages are based occurred;
(4) a former contractor of an investing entity who was a contractor when the act or omission on which the damages are based occurred; and
(5) an investing entity.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1375 (S.B. 247), Sec. 2, eff. January 1, 2008.
Transferred, redesignated and amended from Government Code, Chapter 806 by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 96 (S.B. 253), Sec. 4, eff. May 23, 2017.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.2270.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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