Tex. Gov't Code § 448.001 · Subchapter A. GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter:
(1) "Advisory commission" means the Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission.
(2) "Antisemitism" means a certain perception of Jews that may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. The term includes rhetorical and physical acts of antisemitism directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals or their property or toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities. Examples of antisemitism are included with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's "Working Definition of Antisemitism" adopted on May 26, 2016.
(3) "Commission" means the Texas Historical Commission.
(4) "Genocide" means any of the following acts committed with intent to wholly or partly destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group:
(A) killing members of the group;
(B) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(C) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to wholly or partly cause the group's physical destruction;
(D) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; or
(E) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
(5) "Holocaust" means the killing of approximately six million Jews and millions of other persons during World War II by the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazis) and Nazi collaborators as part of a state-sponsored, systematic program of genocide and other acts of persecution, discrimination, violence, or other human rights violations committed by the Nazis and Nazi collaborators against those persons.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 897 (H.B. 3257), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2021.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.448.htm
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