Tex. Transp. Code § 723.011 · Subchapter B. PREPARATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF TRAFFIC SAFETY PROGRAM
GOVERNOR'S RESPONSIBILITY FOR PROGRAM.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The governor shall:
(1) prepare and administer a statewide traffic safety program designed to reduce traffic collisions and the death, injury, and property damage that result from traffic collisions;
(2) adopt rules for the administration of this chapter, including rules, procedures, and policy statements governing grants-in-aid and contractual relations;
(3) receive on the state's behalf for the implementation of this chapter money made available by the United States under federal law; and
(4) allocate money appropriated by the legislature in the General Appropriations Act to implement this chapter.
(b) In preparing and administering the traffic safety program, the governor may:
(1) cooperate with the United States or a legal or political subdivision of the state in research designed to aid in traffic safety;
(2) accept federal money available for research relating to traffic safety; and
(3) employ personnel necessary to administer this chapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995.
Amended by:
Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 709 (H.B. 2190), Sec. 102, eff. September 1, 2023.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/TN/htm/TN.723.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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