§ 28.005.Sanctions

The enforcement provision, and it offers a graduated response.

In addition to any other sanctions the court is permitted to impose under law, if a claimant fails to comply the court may stay the proceeding until the required disclosure is made, or dismiss the action with prejudice on a finding of wilful noncompliance.

The stay is the ordinary remedy and it is self-curing. The case stops until the disclosure arrives, which pressures compliance without ending the claim. A claimant who overlooked the requirement fixes it and proceeds.

Dismissal is reserved and conditioned. It requires a finding of wilful noncompliance — not mere failure, but a deliberate one — and the finding is a predicate the court must make. With prejudice makes it final: the claim cannot be refiled.

Dismissing a claim with prejudice for a disclosure failure, rather than for any defect in its merits, is a severe sanction, and the wilfulness requirement is what confines it to the case the chapter is aimed at — a claimant concealing the funding rather than one who was careless about a new obligation.

The opening clause preserves everything else. The court's ordinary sanctions powers remain, so these two are additions rather than a complete list.