Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code

§ 73.002 — PRIVILEGED MATTERS

CP § 73.002Title 4. LIABILITY IN TORT · Ch. 73. LIBEL · Art. A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

Statute text

(a)The publication by a newspaper or other periodical of a matter covered by this section is privileged and is not a ground for a libel action. This privilege does not extend to the republication of a matter if it is proved that the matter was republished with actual malice after it had ceased to be of public concern.

(b)This section applies to:

(1)a fair, true, and impartial account of:

(A)a judicial proceeding, unless the court has prohibited publication of a matter because in its judgment the interests of justice demand that the matter not be published;

(B)an official proceeding, other than a judicial proceeding, to administer the law;

(C)an executive or legislative proceeding (including a proceeding of a legislative committee), a proceeding in or before a managing board of an educational or eleemosynary institution supported from the public revenue, of the governing body of a city or town, of a county commissioners court, and of a public school board or a report of or debate and statements made in any of those proceedings; or

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Legislative history

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1985.