SCOPE OF CHAPTER
Applied in 38 court decisions — leading case Sanders v. Palunsky (2001)
Most recently applied in Damon Kendrick Dove v. State (August 2018)
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 378, Sec. 2, 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 applies only to an action, including an appeal or original proceeding, brought by an inmate in a district, county, justice of the peace, or small claims court or an appellate court, including the supreme court or the court of criminal appeals, in which an affidavit or unsworn declaration of inability to pay costs is filed by the inmate.
(b) This chapter does not apply to an action brought under the Family Code.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.