COMMISSION POWERS
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Blount v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (1984)
Most recently applied in Diaz v. Cantu (December 2024)
Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2510, ch. 871, art
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.
In the discharge of its duties and the enforcement of its jurisdiction under this title, the commission shall:
(1) institute suits;
(2) hear and determine complaints;
(3) require the attendance of witnesses and pay their expenses out of funds provided for that purpose;
(4) obtain the issuance of writs and process which may be necessary for the enforcement of its orders; and
(5) punish for contempt or disobedience of its orders in the manner provided for the district courts.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.