Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code

§ 14.011 — EFFECT ON OTHER CLAIMS

CP § 14.011Title 2. TRIAL, JUDGMENT, AND APPEAL · Part A. GENERAL PROVISIONS · Ch. 14. INMATE LITIGATION

Statute text

(a)Except as provided by Subsection (b), on receipt of an order assessing fees and costs under Section 14.006 that indicates that the court made the finding described by Section 14.007(a), a clerk of a court may not accept for filing another claim by the inmate until the fees and costs assessed under Section 14.006 are paid.

(b)A court may allow an inmate who has not paid the fees and costs assessed against the inmate to file a claim for injunctive relief seeking to enjoin an act or failure to act that creates a substantial threat of irreparable injury or serious physical harm to the inmate.

Legislative history

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 378, Sec. 2, eff. June 8, 1995.