Tex. Util. Code § 14.054 · Subchapter B. PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
SETTLEMENTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The commission by rule shall adopt procedures governing the use of settlements to resolve contested cases.
(b) Rules adopted under this section must ensure that:
(1) each party retains the right to:
(A) a full hearing before the commission on issues that remain in dispute; and
(B) judicial review of issues that remain in dispute;
(2) an issue of fact raised by a nonsettling party may not be waived by a settlement or stipulation of the other parties; and
(3) a nonsettling party may use an issue of fact raised by that party as the basis for judicial review.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/UT/htm/UT.14.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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