Texas Government Code - GOV'T § 2058.001. Governmental Recognition of and Action on Federal Census

(a) A governmental entity may not recognize or act on a report or publication, in any form, of a federal decennial census, in whole or in part, before September 1 of the year after the calendar year during which the census was taken.

(b) A governmental entity shall recognize and act on a published report or count relating to a federal decennial census and released by the director of the Bureau of the Census of the United States Department of Commerce on the later of:

(c) In this section, “governmental entity” means the state or an agency or political subdivision of the state.