Tex. Transp. Code § 201.451 · Subchapter F-1. COMPLIANCE PROGRAM
ESTABLISHMENT AND PURPOSE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
The commission shall establish a compliance program, which must include a compliance office to oversee the program. The compliance office is responsible for:
(1) acting to prevent and detect serious breaches of departmental policy, fraud, waste, and abuse of office, including any acts of criminal conduct within the department;
(2) independently and objectively reviewing, investigating, delegating, and overseeing the investigation of:
(A) conduct described by Subdivision (1);
(B) criminal activity in the department;
(C) allegations of wrongdoing by department employees;
(D) crimes committed on department property; and
(E) serious breaches of department policy;
(3) overseeing the operation of the telephone hotline established under Section 201.211;
(4) ensuring that members of the commission and department employees receive appropriate ethics training; and
(5) performing other duties assigned to the office by the commission.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 1345 (S.B. 1420), Sec. 15(a), eff. September 1, 2011.
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.201.htm
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