Sec. 124.001.  DEFINITIONS.  In this subchapter:
(1)  "Court" means:
(A)  a court in which proceedings for administration of an estate are pending or have been completed; or
(B)  if no proceedings are pending or have been completed, a court in which venue lies for the administration of an estate.
(2)  "Estate" means the gross estate of a decedent as determined for the purpose of estate taxes.
(3)  "Estate tax" means any estate, inheritance, or death tax levied or assessed on the property of a decedent's estate because of the death of a person and imposed by federal, state, local, or foreign law, including the federal estate tax and the inheritance tax imposed by former Chapter 211, Tax Code, and including interest and penalties imposed in addition to those taxes.  The term does not include a tax imposed under Section 2601 or 2701(d)(1)(A), Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. Section 2601 or 2701(d)).
(4)  "Person" includes a trust, natural person, partnership, association, joint stock company, corporation, government, political subdivision, or governmental agency.
(5)  "Person interested in the estate" means a person, or a fiduciary on behalf of that person, who is entitled to receive or who has received, from a decedent or because of the death of the decedent, property included in the decedent's estate for purposes of the estate tax.  The term does not include a creditor of the decedent or of the decedent's estate.
(6)  "Representative" means the representative, executor, or administrator of an estate, or any other person who is required to pay estate taxes assessed against the estate.
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 680, Sec. 1, eff. January 1, 2014.
Amended by: 
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1161 (S.B. 752), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2015.
Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 844 (H.B. 2271), Sec. 8, eff. September 1, 2017.