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§ 140B.114.Multiple Remedies Allowed

Title 6. Miscellaneous Provisions · Chapter 140B. Civil Remedies and Enforcement Related to Racketeering and Unlawful Debt Collection · Subchapter C. Civil Remedies · Last amended 2023 · Last verified August 29, 2026

In one sentenceSection 140B.114 makes the chapter’s civil remedies supplemental and cumulative, so applying one does not preclude any other civil or criminal remedy.

Full Text of § 140B.114

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The application of one civil remedy under a provision of this chapter does not preclude the application of any other remedy, civil or criminal, under this chapter or any other law. Civil remedies under this chapter are supplemental and not mutually exclusive.
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Plain-English Summary

Two sentences settling how this chapter sits beside everything else.

The application of one civil remedy under a provision of this chapter does not preclude the application of any other remedy, civil or criminal, under this chapter or any other law. And: civil remedies under this chapter are supplemental and not mutually exclusive.

Both directions are covered. Remedies within the chapter can be combined, and remedies outside it remain available.

The internal point is the practical one. A single enterprise can face forfeiture of its property, dissolution of the company, a licence revoked, a civil penalty, and a substitute-asset judgment — and nothing requires the state to choose.

The external point covers the criminal case. The three Penal Code offenses this chapter is built on are second-degree felonies, and the civil action neither replaces prosecution nor is barred by it.

Section 140B.108 is the companion to that. The two proceedings run together, and a conviction carries forward into the civil case.

Naming both "supplemental" and "not mutually exclusive" is not redundant. The first says the chapter adds to existing law; the second says its own remedies stack. A statute could be one without the other.

Read against the rest of the chapter, the section confirms the design. Chapter 140B is an addition to the state’s enforcement tools, not a code that displaces what came before — and the only real limit on combining remedies sits in Section 140B.003, which keeps this chapter off property already committed to criminal forfeiture.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can the state seek more than one remedy?

Yes. The remedies are supplemental and not mutually exclusive, so applying one does not preclude another.

Does a civil action replace prosecution?

No. Criminal and civil remedies under this or any other law remain available together.

Are there any limits?

Section 140B.003 keeps this chapter away from property over which a criminal forfeiture was already asserted.

Amendment History

  • Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 885 (H.B. 4635), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2023.
Source & verification. Section text is reproduced verbatim from Texas Legislature Online (statutes.capitol.texas.gov). Enacted by the Texas Legislature. Current through May 14, 2026. Last verified August 29, 2026. · Official source