Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 123.002 · Chapter 123. COMMUNITY HOMES FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
DEFINITION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter, "person with a disability" means a person whose ability to care for himself or herself, perform manual tasks, learn, work, walk, see, hear, speak, or breathe is substantially limited because the person has:
(1) an orthopedic, visual, speech, or hearing impairment;
(2) Alzheimer's disease;
(3) pre-senile dementia;
(4) cerebral palsy;
(5) epilepsy;
(6) muscular dystrophy;
(7) multiple sclerosis;
(8) cancer;
(9) heart disease;
(10) diabetes;
(11) an intellectual disability;
(12) autism; or
(13) mental illness.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 12.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 4.431, 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/HR/htm/HR.123.htm
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- 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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