JUDICIAL
Known as the Texas Tort Claims Act
The act spans §§ 101–101 (41 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Williams v. Houston Firemen's Relief & Retirement Fund (2003)
Most recently applied in Stephen Avdeef v. Royal Bank of Scotland, P.L.C. (June 2015)
Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1, eff
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.
(a) This chapter does not apply to a claim based on an act or omission of a court of this state or any member of a court of this state acting in his official capacity or to a judicial function of a governmental unit. "Official capacity" means all duties of office and includes administrative decisions or actions.
(b) This chapter does not apply to a claim based on an act or omission of an employee in the execution of a lawful order of any court.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.