Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 35.012 · Chapter 35. SUPPORT SERVICES FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
CRIMINAL PENALTY.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person commits an offense if the person, in obtaining or attempting to obtain assistance under this chapter for himself or another person:
(1) makes or causes to be made a statement or representation the person knows to be false; or
(2) solicits or accepts any assistance for which the person knows that the person for whom the solicitation is made is not eligible.
(b) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 1208, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HR/htm/HR.35.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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