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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Finance Code § 119.202: CRIMINAL SLANDER OR LIBEL.

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  1. FINANCE CODE
  2. TITLE 3. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND BUSINESSES
  3. SUBTITLE C. SAVINGS BANKS
  4. CHAPTER 119. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO SAVINGS BANKS
  5. SUBCHAPTER C. OFFENSES AND PENALTIES

(a) A person commits an offense if the person:

(1) knowingly makes, utters, circulates, or transmits to another person a statement that is untrue and derogatory to the financial condition of a savings bank; or

(2) with intent to injure a savings bank counsels, aids, procures, or induces another person to originate, make, utter, transmit, or circulate a statement or rumor that is untrue and derogatory to the financial condition of the savings bank.

(b) An offense under Subsection (a) is a state jail felony.

Added by Acts 2013, 83rd Leg., R.S., Ch. 464 (S.B. 1008), Sec. 14, eff. September 1, 2013.

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