Tex. Gov't Code § 494.001 · Chapter 494. INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION: POLICY, DIRECTOR, AND STAFF
INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION MISSION.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The mission of the institutional division is to provide safe and appropriate confinement, supervision, rehabilitation, and reintegration of adult felons, and to effectively manage or administer correctional facilities based on constitutional and statutory standards.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 10.01(a). Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 321, Sec. 1.012, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.494.htm
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- sha256 778610fec94d7c7710385d77cf087e66d2d11eddeb1bf9dd50774bb64276897a
- 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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