Tex. Health & Safety Code § 427.001 · Chapter 427. TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTE
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter:
(1) "Commission" means the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
(2) "Department" means the Department of State Health Services.
(3) "Federal superfund site" means a site defined by the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. Section 9601 et seq.), as amended.
(4) "Immediately surrounding area" means an area determined by the commission to have been significantly exposed to one or more pollutants from the identified site.
(5) "Institute" means the Texas Environmental Health Institute.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 965, Sec. 19.01, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
Amended by:
Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 87 (S.B. 1969), Sec. 12.017, eff. September 1, 2009.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.427.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 a55d5ced72c8481569890104b66607780a5cab229451a0aaf17a8be6ffe59be6
- 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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