Tex. Gov't Code § 313.002 · Chapter 313. NOTICE FOR LOCAL AND SPECIAL LAWS
PUBLICATION OR POSTING OF NOTICE FOR LAWS AFFECTING LOCALITIES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person who intends to apply for the passage of a local or special law must publish notice of that intention in a newspaper published in the county embracing the locality the law will affect.
(b) The notice must be published once not later than the 30th day before the date on which the intended law is introduced in the legislature.
(c) The notice is sufficient if it contains a statement of the general purpose and substance of the intended law and the name of the person paying for the publication. Publication of the particular form of the intended law or the terms used in the intended law is not required.
(d) If the intended law will affect more than one county, the person applying for passage of the law must publish notice in each county the law will affect.
(e) If a newspaper is not published in the county, the person applying for passage of the law must post the notice at the courthouse door and at five other public places in the immediate locality in the county the law will affect.
(f) The posted notice must accurately define the locality the law will affect.
(g) The notice must be posted for at least 30 days.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 479, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.
Amended by:
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 815 (H.B. 2365), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2019.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.313.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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