Texas Administrative Code

(a) A respondent may file with the chief clerk a written response to the EDPR or a pleading entitled an answer which may deny the alleged violations and/or the amount of the penalty. Through the answer, the respondent may either agree to the amount of the penalties and corrective…

(a) The manufacturer shall submit a monthly report to the department, of all industrialized housing, buildings, modules, and modular components that were constructed and to which decals and insignia were attached during the month. (1) The report shall be filed in a format require…

(a) General. (1) A person who engages in the assembly, connection, and on-site construction and erection of modules or modular components at the building site for persons other than themselves, or who purchases industrialized housing or buildings, or modular components, for sale …

(a) An agency seeking council approval as a design review agency (DRA) shall submit a written application to the executive director. The application will indicate the agency's name, address, and the telephone number of each office in which design review services are to be perform…

(a) The manufacturer shall provide the industrialized builder, or a person who has obtained an installation permit in accordance with § 70.20, the following information: (1) the name, Texas registration number, and address of the manufacturer of the building; (2) the location of …

(a) The manufacturer shall designate in writing to the department the third party inspection agency that will be performing in-plant inspections. A manufacturer may designate more than one third party inspection agency to perform in-plant inspections. However, once an agency has …

(a) Industrialized housing shall be installed on a permanent foundation system. (b) The initial construction and inspection of a site-built REF at the 1st commercial site falls under the provisions of §70.79. Subsequent installation of REFs shall comply with this section. (c) Res…

(a) The manufacturer shall not alter construction of the industrialized house or building from the approved design package. Industrialized builders or installation permit holders shall not alter construction performed at the installation from the approved on-site construction doc…

(a) The manufacturer shall attach a data plate to each dwelling unit of a residential structure containing industrialized housing and buildings modules and to each appropriate unit of a commercial structure containing industrialized housing and buildings modules. (b) The REF buil…

(a) An agency seeking council approval as a third party inspection agency shall submit a written application to the executive director. The application will indicate the agency name, address, and telephone number of each office through which third party inspections will be coordi…

(a) Effective July 1, 2024, all industrialized housing and buildings, modules, and modular components, shall be constructed in accordance with the codes referenced in subsection (c) - (j). The 2015 editions of the International codes as identified in subsection (c) - (i), as well…

(a) Industrialized housing, buildings, and site-built REFs shall be constructed to meet or exceed the mandatory building code standards and requirements referenced in § 70.100 and § 70.101 in effect at the time of construction. A building that has not been previously occupied or …

(a) Alternate materials or methods of construction other than as authorized by the mandatory codes set forth in § 70.100 must be approved by the council. (b) Manufacturers, REF builders, or industrialized builders shall submit descriptions of alternate methods or materials requir…

The 69th Legislature, 1985, has found and determined that there is great need to provide safe, durable code-constructed housing and buildings and to encourage the economics realized through mass production and assembly line building techniques in order to produce and provide more…

(a) Pursuant to the criteria established by the council as set forth in §§ 70.22, 70.23, and 70.24 the executive director will recommend qualified design review agencies, third party inspection agencies, third party inspectors, and third party site inspectors to the council for a…

(a) A Texas Virtual School Network (TxVSN) course cost may not exceed the lesser of the cost of providing the course or $400. (b) A school district or charter school may decline to pay the course costs for a student who chooses to enroll in more than three year-long electronic co…

(a) All Texas public school students enrolled in the Texas Virtual School Network (TxVSN) are required to take the statewide assessments as required in the Texas Education Code, § 39.023 . (b) All school districts and charter schools participating in the TxVSN Online School (OLS)…

Private entities that supply online courses offered by Texas Virtual School Network course providers as authorized under the Texas Education Code, Chapter 30A, do not become public schools by that relationship. Only school districts and charter schools may claim to be Texas publi…

Public or private institutions of higher education participating as Texas Virtual School Network (TxVSN) course providers shall: (1) serve students statewide. TxVSN student enrollments are not subject to service area priorities or restrictions; (2) enroll students through the sta…

(a) Each instructor of an electronic course, including a dual credit course, offered through the Texas Virtual School Network (TxVSN) by a course provider must be certified under the Texas Education Code (TEC), Chapter 21, Subchapter B, to teach that course and grade level or mee…

The following definitions apply to this subchapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) DHS--Texas Department of Human Services. (2) You and your--An individual who makes a request for information. Notes 40 Tex. Admin. Code § 71.101 The provisions of this §71.101 …

(a) Texas Government Code, Chapter 552 (the Public Information Act) requires DHS to answer all written requests for information. If you make your request for information orally, the DHS staff to whom you make the request may choose whether to answer. (b) Your request for informat…

(a) DHS charges fees to cover the cost of copies of or access to public information. Except as otherwise provided in this part, DHS uses rules adopted by the Texas Building and Procurement Commission (TBPC) in 1 TAC §§ 111.61-111.71, to set charges for copies of or access to publ…

The following definitions apply to this subchapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) Client--An individual who is an applicant for or recipient of services from the Texas Department of Human Services. (2) DHS--Texas Department of Human Services. (3) Individuall…

(a) State and federal law control the disclosure of information about a client and usually make the information confidential. (b) General information that is not about a specific client is usually not confidential under state or federal law. This type of information includes fina…

A client has a right to review and get copies of the information in his or her own case file unless another law says otherwise. Notes 40 Tex. Admin. Code § 71.203 The provisions of this §71.203 adopted to be effective April 14, 2003, 28 TexReg 2356

DHS may disclose identifying information, such as names and addresses, about the friends and relatives of a client to a funeral home, to law enforcement, or to another entity for purposes of notifying the friends or relatives of the client's death. Notes 40 Tex. Admin. Code § 71.…

(a) Medicaid providers. A Medicaid provider or its authorized representative may get client information for eligibility verification and billing purposes. An authorized representative must have an agency agreement on file with DHS to get information on behalf of a Medicaid provid…

(a) DHS will disclose information about a client from a client case file if it receives a valid authorization to release the information signed by the client or the client's personal representative. (b) To be valid, an authorization to release client information other than indivi…

(a) The following definitions apply to this subchapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) CFR--Code of Federal Regulations (2) Covered entity-- (A) a health plan; (B) a health care clearinghouse; or (C) a health care provider who transmits any health information…

(a) Except as stated in subsection (b) of this section, you have a right to look at or get a copy of the information that DHS keeps in a designated record set about you. (b) DHS may refuse to let you look at or get a copy of the information, either with or without giving you a ch…

DHS has the following designated record sets that you may access: (1) case records; (2) hearing files; (3) files regarding investigations of individual clients kept by the Office of Inspector General and Civil Rights Division; (4) files regarding overpayments to clients; (5) lice…

(a) Except as stated in subsection (b) of this section, you have a right to know about DHS's disclosures of your individually identifiable health information. This right means that DHS has to tell you when it has disclosed your individually identifiable health information in the …

(a) Except as stated in subsection (b) of this section, the fee DHS charges for providing a copy of individually identifiable health information is determined under § 71.103 of this title (relating to Schedule of Fees). (b) DHS will not charge for overhead when providing you a co…

Under the law, you may ask DHS to limit the uses and disclosures of your individually identifiable health information more than the law requires. The law also says that DHS is not required to agree to any limit you ask for. Thus, you may ask DHS to limit the disclosure of informa…

(a) You may ask DHS to contact you by different means or at different locations. This request must: (1) be in writing; (2) specify the different means or different location or both, as appropriate; and (3) contain a statement that contacting you by the usual means or at the usual…

(a) Before disclosing individually identifiable health information, DHS will verify the identity of the individual asking for the information and the power of the individual to get the information. (b) DHS may require an individual to prove his or her identity. Proof of identity …