Texas Local Government Code - LOC GOV'T § 112.033. Indigent and Delinquent Tax Lists

(a) The tax assessor-collector shall make separate lists of indigent and delinquent taxpayers. Each list must show the name of the taxpayer and the amount owed.

(b) The commissioners court shall carefully examine each list and shall, by an order entered on the minutes of the court, state the names of the taxpayers and the amounts that are judged uncollectible.

(c) After the order has been made and entered, the tax assessor-collector is entitled to be credited with the amounts judged uncollectible in the proper accounts in the county finance records.