DEFINITIONS.
Tex. CIV. PRAC. & REM Code § 14.001.
in effectIn this chapter:
(1) "Claim" means a cause of action governed by this chapter.
(2) "Department" means the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
(3) "Inmate" means a person housed in a secure correctional facility.
(4) "Secure correctional facility" has the meaning assigned by Section 1.07 , Penal Code.
(5) "Trust account" means an inmate's trust account administered by the department under Section 501.014 , Government Code, by a facility under contract with the department, or by a jail.
(6) "Unsworn declaration" means a document executed in accordance with Chapter 132 .
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 378, Sec. 2, eff. June 8, 1995.