§ 28.003.Required Disclosures Related to Funding or Funding Sources

The operative provision of the chapter, and it works through the ordinary disclosure machinery.

As part of the initial disclosures required under Rule 194, a claimant must disclose whether the claimant or the claimant's attorney has received, directly or indirectly, funding or financial support from any individual, entity, or government affiliated with a sanctioned or embargoed nation, and the identity of all sources of such funding.

Three features widen the obligation. It reaches the attorney as well as the claimant. It covers funding received directly or indirectly, so an intermediary does not remove the duty. And it extends to any individual, entity, or government affiliated with such a nation, which is broader than funding from the state itself.

Subsection (b) imposes a continuing obligation to supplement during the pendency of the action, covering both money received after the initial disclosures and sources identified after them.

Subsection (c) sets a short clock: a disclosure must be made not later than the 10th day after the claimant or attorney receives the money or identifies a source. Ten days, running from receipt or identification rather than from any court deadline.

Subsection (d): the disclosure must be made under oath and filed with the court. Not served on the parties in the ordinary way of Rule 194 disclosures — filed, and sworn, which puts it in the public record and exposes a false statement to perjury.