Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 22.0255 · Chapter 22. GENERAL FUNCTIONS RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES
ELECTRONIC BENEFITS TRANSFER CARD; RETURNED-MAIL REDUCTION.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commission shall develop and implement policies and procedures designed to improve the commission's electronic benefits transfer cards used for federal and state entitlement programs administered by the commission.
(b) The commission shall set an annual goal of reducing the amount of returned mail it receives under the programs described by Subsection (a) so that the percentage rate of returned mail is within one percent of the percentage rate of returned mail reported annually for the credit card and debit card industries.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 322, Sec. 1, eff. May 26, 1997.
Amended by:
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1050 (S.B. 71), Sec. 23(2), eff. September 1, 2011.
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1083 (S.B. 1179), Sec. 25(103), eff. June 17, 2011.
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
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HR/htm/HR.22.htm
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