Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 22.0254 · Chapter 22. GENERAL FUNCTIONS RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES
PROSECUTION OF FRAUDULENT CLAIMS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commission shall keep a record of the dispositions of referrals made by the commission to a district attorney concerning fraudulent claims for benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program or the program of financial assistance under Chapter 31.
(b) The commission may:
(1) request status information biweekly from the appropriate district attorney on each major fraudulent claim referred by the commission;
(2) request a written explanation from the appropriate district attorney for each case referred in which the district attorney declines to prosecute; and
(3) encourage the creation of a special welfare fraud unit in each district attorney's office that serves a municipality with a population of more than 250,000, to be financed by amounts provided by the commission.
(c) The executive commissioner by rule may define what constitutes a major fraudulent claim under Subsection (b)(1).
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1153, Sec. 1.01(a), eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 4.028, eff. April 2, 2015.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HR/htm/HR.22.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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