Tex. Lab. Code § 418.001 · Chapter 418. CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS AND PENALTIES
PENALTY FOR FRAUDULENTLY OBTAINING OR DENYING BENEFITS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A person commits an offense if the person, with the intent to obtain or deny payment of benefits, including medical benefits, under this subtitle or Subtitle C, for himself or another, knowingly or intentionally:
(1) makes a false or misleading statement;
(2) misrepresents or conceals a material fact; or
(3) fabricates, alters, conceals, or destroys a document other than a governmental record.
(b) An offense under Subsection (a) is:
(1) a Class A misdemeanor if the value of the benefits is less than $2,500; and
(2) a state jail felony if the value of the benefits is $2,500 or more.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 980, Sec. 1.47, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Amended by:
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 463 (H.B. 2053), Sec. 4, eff. June 9, 2017.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LA/htm/LA.418.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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