Tex. Gov't Code § 401.023 · Subchapter B. EMERGENCY INTERIM SUCCESSION
SUCCESSION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If the governor, lieutenant governor, and president pro tempore of the senate are unavailable, the following officers in succeeding order shall exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the office of governor:
(1) the speaker of the house of representatives;
(2) the attorney general; and
(3) the chief justices of the courts of appeals, in the numerical order of the supreme judicial districts the courts serve.
(b) An officer listed in this section acts as governor under this subchapter only if the preceding officers in the order of succession are unavailable.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 147, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.401.htm
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- sha256 c4ad21ed19762126d2a5de6ebe178f66b39e9ef7cda36012a805d4f577193380
- Composed by
- 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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