These proposed chapters are intended for consideration by the 80th Legislature. If the revised provisions are enacted by the legislature, the council staff anticipates that they would become effective April 1, 2007. Each proposed chapter states the Revised Law, which is the text of the new law, and then provides the Source Law, which is the text of the former law from which the revised law is derived. If further explanation of either the revised law or the source law is required, a Revisor's Note is included after the source law. In most instances, all substance in the source law is revised in the revised law; in instances where source-law substance has been omitted, the omission is explained in a revisor's note.

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The proposed chapters of the Business & Commerce Code project are available for viewing on-line or for download as Word and HTML files.   The download files have been zipped (compressed) so that it will take less time for you to download.

Note:  These are the final preliminary drafts of the proposed chapters.  After the initial drafts were posted on this site, minor editing changes were made to them in compiling the bill for introduction to the Legislature.  For the text of the final drafts, please consult the introduced bill when it becomes available

To View: Click the "view" link to jump to the specified title.  To view the nonsubstantive revision of the Development Corporation Act of 1979 (Article 5190.6, Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), click on the Local Government Code Title 12 link on the right.

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