Tex. Occ. Code § 554.054 · Subchapter B. RULEMAKING
RULES RESTRICTING ADVERTISING OR COMPETITIVE BIDDING.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The board may not adopt rules restricting advertising or competitive bidding by a person regulated by the board except to prohibit false, misleading, or deceptive practices by that person.
(b) The board may not include in rules to prohibit false, misleading, or deceptive practices by a person regulated by the board a rule that:
(1) restricts the use of any advertising medium;
(2) restricts the person's personal appearance or use of the person's voice in an advertisement;
(3) relates to the size or duration of an advertisement used by the person; or
(4) restricts the use of a trade name in advertising by the person.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/OC/htm/OC.554.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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