Sec. 123.002. DEFINITION    


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  • In this chapter, "person with a disability" means a person whose ability to care for himself, perform manual tasks, learn, work, walk, see, hear, speak, or breathe is substantially limited because the person has:

    (1) an orthopedic, visual, speech, or hearing impairment;

    (2) Alzheimer's disease;

    (3) pre-senile dementia;

    (4) cerebral palsy;

    (5) epilepsy;

    (6) muscular dystrophy;

    (7) multiple sclerosis;

    (8) cancer;

    (9) heart disease;

    (10) diabetes;

    (11) mental retardation;

    (12) autism; or

    (13) emotional illness.

Added by Acts 1991, 72nd Leg., ch. 16, Sec. 12.01(a), eff. Aug. 26, 1991.