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Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 101.051

SCHOOL AND JUNIOR COLLEGE DISTRICTS PARTIALLY EXCLUDED

Known as the Texas Tort Claims Act

The act spans §§ 101–101 (41 sections).

Applied in 26 court decisions — leading case Gebser v. Lago Vista Independent School District (1998)

Most recently applied in Hous. Indep. Sch. Dist. v. Durrell (March 2018)

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1, eff

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

Except as to motor vehicles, this chapter does not apply to a school district or to a junior college district.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.