Sec. 1.001.  PURPOSE.  The purpose of this code is to make the law encompassed by this code more accessible and understandable by:
(1)  rearranging the statutes into a more logical order;
(2)  employing a format and numbering system designed to facilitate citation of the law and to accommodate future expansion of the law;
(3)  eliminating repealed, duplicative, expired, executed, and other ineffective provisions;  and
(4)  restating the law in modern American English to the greatest extent possible.
Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 182, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.