Tex. Health & Safety Code § 221.103 · Subchapter E. ADMINISTRATION BY SECRETARY OF STATE
NOTICE AND APPEAL OF DISAPPROVAL.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) If the secretary of state fails to approve a document required by this chapter to be approved by the secretary of state, the secretary of state, not later than the 10th day after the date the document is delivered to the secretary of state, shall give written notice of the disapproval to the person who delivered the document. The notice must state the reasons for the disapproval.
(b) The person may appeal the disapproval to a district court of Travis County by filing with the clerk of the court a petition including a copy of the disapproved document and a copy of the disapproval notice.
(c) The court shall try the matter de novo, and either sustain the secretary of state's action or direct the secretary of state to take action the court considers proper.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.221.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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