Tex. Hum. Res. Code § 42.058 · Subchapter C. REGULATION OF CERTAIN FACILITIES, HOMES, AND AGENCIES
COMPETITIVE BIDDING OR ADVERTISING RULES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The executive commissioner may not adopt rules restricting competitive bidding or advertising by a license holder or registration holder except to prohibit false, misleading, or deceptive practices or to prevent a violation of this chapter.
(b) Rules to prohibit false, misleading, or deceptive practices may not include a rule that:
(1) restricts the use of any medium for advertising;
(2) restricts the use of a license holder's or registration holder's personal appearance or voice in an advertisement;
(3) relates to the size or duration of an advertisement by the license holder or registration holder; or
(4) restricts the license holder's or registration holder's advertisement under a trade name.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1022, Sec. 33, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 4.234, 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.42.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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