Tex. Health & Safety Code § 438.153 · Subchapter H. INFORMATION ON DEPARTMENT OR LOCAL HEALTH JURISDICTION FOOD REGULATION
REQUEST FOR OFFICIAL DETERMINATION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) On receipt of a written request regarding the applicability to a specific circumstance of a regulation or the requirements for compliance with the regulation, the department or local health jurisdiction shall provide an official written determination regarding the applicability of the regulation or the requirements for compliance with the regulation to the requestor not later than the 30th day after the date the department or local health jurisdiction receives the request.
(b) An official determination made under this section is valid until the regulation that is the subject of the determination is amended by statute, department rule, or local health jurisdiction regulation.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 918 (H.B. 1392), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2013.
Amended by:
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 309 (H.B. 2107), Sec. 4, eff. September 1, 2019.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.438.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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