Tex. Occ. Code § 402.404 · Subchapter I. GENERAL BUSINESS REGULATIONS
SURETY BONDING.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A sole proprietor, partnership, corporation, or other legal entity engaged in the fitting and dispensing of hearing instruments shall file with the department security in a form provided by Subsection (b) in the amount of $10,000 and conditioned on the promise to pay all:
(1) taxes and contributions owed to the state and political subdivisions of the state by the entity; and
(2) judgments that the entity may be required to pay for:
(A) negligently or improperly dispensing hearing instruments; or
(B) breaching a contract relating to the dispensing of hearing instruments.
(b) The security may be a bond, a cash deposit, or another negotiable security acceptable to the department.
(c) A bond required by this section remains in effect until canceled by action of the surety, the principal, or the department. A person must take action on the bond not later than the third anniversary of the date the bond is canceled.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 838 (S.B. 202), Sec. 1.122, eff. September 1, 2015.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.402.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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