Ken Paxton

The Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority may impose a fee on lakefront property owners for the unique services landowners receive from the Authority, so long as the fee does not amount to a tax on those property owners.  The Authority may not establish a taxing district, but property owners could form one and use taxes for dam repair.

The State Employee Charitable Campaign’s approval of abortion providers or affiliates constitutes a taxpayer resource transaction under Senate Bill 22, codified at Government Code chapter 2272 titled “Prohibited Transactions.”

Municipal hotel occupancy tax revenue may be used to repair a visitor information center owned and operated by a chamber of commerce if expenditures directly enhance and promote tourism and the convention and hotel industry as required by Tax Code section 351.101.

A supplemental appropriation to the Transportation Infrastructure Fund became effective on June 6, 2019.  Amendments to the Fund’s distribution formula became effective on September 1, 2019.  Funds distributed prior to September 1, 2019, will follow the pre-amendment formula and the amended formula will be used after September 1, 2019.

Tissue banks licensed by another state may operate in Texas pursuant to Health and Safety Code chapter 692A; however, whole-body donations, including transfers, are subject to oversight by the Anatomical Board of Texas.

Estray laws are to be enforced by the county sheriff whether the county has adopted a local-option stock law or remains an open-range area.

Chapter 393 of the Finance Code does not restrict credit services organizations, other than when operating as credit access businesses, from obtaining for a consumer or assisting in obtaining an extension of consumer credit in a form other than a deferred presentment transaction or motor vehicle title loan.

A determination about whether any specific extension of credit complies with the requirements of chapter 393 will involve a factual inquiry into the precise offering, and such questions are beyond the scope of an attorney general opinion.

Section 43.106 of the Local Government Code requires a municipality that annexed any portion of a county road or an area abutting a county road by granting a petition under former section 43.028 to also annex the full width of the road and adjacent right-of-way.

Depending on the relief sought, a county could challenge a municipality’s annexation under section 43.106 of the Local Government Code in an action in quo warranto, declaratory judgment, or both.

Disclosure of child sex offense victim from probable cause affidavits prohibited.

Subchapter D, chapter 822 of the Health and Safety Code governs dangerous dogs and incorporates local regulation.  Under the home-rule amendment of the Texas Constitution, however, a municipality cannot adopt an ordinance that conflicts with or is inconsistent with state law. 

Section 822.042 allows thirty days for an owner to comply with the applicable requirements for owning a dangerous dog.  A municipal ordinance imposing a shorter compliance deadline cannot be harmonized with the statute and therefore the municipal ordinance provision would fall.