Texas Government Code Title 10, Chapter 2260 - Resolution Of Certain Contract Claims Against The State

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

• Texas Section 2260.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Contract" means a written contract between a unit of state government and a contractor for goods or services, or for a...
• Texas Section 2260.002 - Applicability
  This chapter does not apply to: (1) a claim for personal injury or wrongful death arising from the breach of a contract; (2) a contract...
• Texas Section 2260.003 - Damages
  (a) The total amount of money recoverable on a claim for breach of contract under this chapter may not, after deducting the amount specified in...
• Texas Section 2260.004 - Required Contract Provision
  (a) Each unit of state government that enters into a contract to which this chapter applies shall include as a term of the contract a...
• Texas Section 2260.005 - Exclusive Procedure
  Subject to Section 2260.007, the procedures contained in this chapter are exclusive and required prerequisites to suit in accordance with Chapter 107, Civil Practice and...
• Texas Section 2260.006 - Sovereign Immunity
  This chapter does not waive sovereign immunity to suit or liability. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1352, Sec. 9, eff. Aug. 30, 1999.

SUBCHAPTER B NEGOTIATION OF CLAIM

• Texas Section 2260.007 - Legislative Authority Retained; Interpretation Of Chapter
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 2260.005, the legislature retains the authority to deny or grant a waiver of immunity to suit against a unit of state government...
• Texas Section 2260.051 - Claim For Breach Of Contract; Notice
  (a) A contractor may make a claim against a unit of state government for breach of a contract between the unit of state government and...
• Texas Section 2260.052 - Negotiation
  (a) The chief administrative officer or, if designated in the contract, another officer of the unit of state government shall examine the claim and any...
• Texas Section 2260.053 - Partial Resolution Of Claim
  (a) If the negotiation under Section 2260.052 results in the resolution of some disputed issues by agreement or in a settlement, the parties shall reduce...
• Texas Section 2260.054 - Payment Of Claim From Appropriated Funds
  A unit of state government may pay a claim resolved in accordance with this subchapter only from money appropriated to it for payment of contract...
• Texas Section 2260.055 - Incomplete Resolution
  If a claim is not entirely resolved under Section 2260.052 on or before the 270th day after the date the claim is filed with the...

SUBCHAPTER C CONTESTED CASE HEARING

• Texas Section 2260.056 - Mediation
  (a) Before the 120th day after the date the claim is filed with the unit of state government and before the expiration of any extension...
• Texas Section 2260.101 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "office" means the State Office of Administrative Hearings. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 1352, Sec. 9, eff. Aug. 30, 1999.
• Texas Section 2260.102 - Request For Hearing
  (a) If a contractor is not satisfied with the results of negotiation with a unit of state government under Section 2260.052, the contractor may file...
• Texas Section 2260.103 - Hearing Fee
  (a) The chief administrative law judge of the office may set a fee for a hearing before the office under this subchapter. (b) The chief...
• Texas Section 2260.104 - Hearing
  (a) An administrative law judge of the office shall conduct a hearing in accordance with the procedures adopted by the chief administrative law judge of...
• Texas Section 2260.105 - Payment Of Claim
  (a) The unit of state government shall pay the amount of the claim or part of the claim if: (1) the administrative law judge finds,...
• Texas Section 2260.1055 - Report And Recommendation To Legislature
  (a) If, after a hearing, the administrative law judge determines that a claim involves damages of $250,000 or more, the administrative law judge shall issue...
• Texas Section 2260.106 - Prejudgment Interest
  Chapter 304, Finance Code, applies to a judgment awarded to a claimant under this chapter, except that the applicable rate of interest may not exceed...
• Texas Section 2260.107 - Execution On State Property Not Authorized
  This chapter does not authorize execution on property owned by the state or a unit of state government. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch....
• Texas Section 2260.108 - Defense By Attorney General
  (a) The attorney general shall defend a unit of state government in a contested case hearing covered by this chapter. (b) The attorney general may...

Last modified: September 28, 2016