- (a) A person commits an offense if the person defrauds a person of rights or benefits under this chapter or uses this chapter to defraud the state by an act of fraud, duress, deceit, coercion, or misrepresentation.
- (b) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree.
Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 542, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.