Tex. Health & Safety Code § 12.003 · Subchapter A. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES
LEGAL REPRESENTATION.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A suit brought by the department must be brought in the name of the state.
(b) The attorney general shall assign a special assistant to attend to the department's legal matters, and on the department's request shall furnish necessary assistance to the department relating to its legal requirements.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0010, eff. April 2, 2015.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.12.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 fbf4519bef51d6056334d422536e244f36359647c2b2b5913d0bdf131a3dc462
- 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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