Tex. Gov't Code § 782.004 · Chapter 782. CULTURAL BASIN ACT
CREATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The governor shall designate a geographical area in the state as a cultural basin if:
(1) there is a commonality within the area, based on cultural, historical, and economic factors;
(2) the areas of commonality within the proposed cultural basin are contiguous; and
(3) state planning regions may be used as building blocks for the formation of the cultural basin.
(b) The governor shall designate no fewer than four and no more than seven cultural basins.
(c) Each of three major metropolitan areas should be in separate cultural basins.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 38, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1991.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.782.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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