yourstate.us
Home / Texas / Labor Code
Tex. Labor Code § 505.001

DEFINITIONS

Texas · Texas Labor Code · Status: effective

Get this as JSONEmbed this
Cite this
Citation
Tex. Labor Code § 505.001, DEFINITIONS, Texas, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/688245
Permanent ID
ys:prov:688245@1
SHA-256
6399d471cebd65ff707e475f78775f04239961ac8779d70a473aef00329e2d15

The hash is SHA-256 of this version's text, with every run of whitespace collapsed to a single space and the ends trimmed. The ID always leads back here, and checking it says whether the text you cited is still the current version.

Full text

(a) In this chapter: (1) Repealed by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 265, Sec. 7.01(32), eff. September 1, 2005. (2) "Department" means the Texas Department of Transportation. (3) "Employee" means a person in the service of the department under an appointment or express contract of hire and whose name appears on the department's payroll. (4) "Legal beneficiary" has the meaning assigned to that term under Section 401.011. (b) A reference in this chapter to an employee who has been injured includes the employee's legal beneficiary if the injured employee is dead.