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2025 Texas Statutes
Occupations Code
Title 2 - General Provisions Relating to Licensing
Chapter 53 - Consequences of Criminal Conviction
Subchapter B. Ineligibility for License
Section 53.0232. Limitation Regarding Consideration of Certain Arrests
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TX Occ Code § 53.0232 (2025)
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Sec. 53.0232. LIMITATION REGARDING CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN ARRESTS. For purposes of determining a person's fitness to perform the duties and discharge the responsibilities of the licensed occupation, a licensing authority may not consider an arrest that did not result in the person's conviction or placement on deferred adjudication community supervision.
Added by Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 984 (S.B. 1217), Sec. 1, eff. June 14, 2019.
Redesignated from Occupations Code, Section 53.0231 by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 915 (H.B. 3607), Sec. 21.001(61), eff. September 1, 2021.
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