Tex. Health & Safety Code § 1101.002 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
PURPOSE; CIRCUMVENTION BY RULE PROHIBITED.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The purpose of this chapter is to encourage voluntary compliance with environmental and occupational health and safety laws.
(b) A regulatory agency may not adopt a rule or impose a condition that circumvents the purpose of this chapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 324 (S.B. 1488), Sec. 20.002(a), eff. September 1, 2017.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.1101.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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