Sec. 431.409.  FEES.  (a)  The department shall collect fees for:
(1)  a license that is filed or renewed;
(2)  a license that is amended, including a notification of a change in the location of a licensed place of business required under Section 431.410; and
(3)  an inspection performed in enforcing this subchapter and rules adopted under this subchapter.
(b)  The executive commissioner by rule shall set the fees in amounts that are reasonable and necessary and allow the department to recover the biennial expenditures of state funds by the department in:
(1)  reviewing and acting on a license;
(2)  amending and renewing a license;
(3)  inspecting a licensed facility; and
(4)  implementing and enforcing this subchapter, including a rule or order adopted or a license issued under this subchapter.
(c)  Fees collected under this section shall be deposited to the credit of the food and drug registration fee account of the general revenue fund and appropriated to the department to carry out this chapter.
Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 282 (H.B. 164), Sec. 3(g), eff. March 1, 2006.
Amended by: 
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.1008, eff. April 2, 2015.