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  "title": "Texas Transportation Code Section 601.072 - Minimum Coverage Amounts; Exclusions",
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      "text": "This reproduction of Texas Transportation Code section 601.072 states in subsection (a-1) that effective January 1, 2011, the minimum amounts of motor vehicle liability insurance coverage required to establish financial responsibility under the chapter are $30,000 for bodily injury to or death of one person in one collision, $60,000 for bodily injury to or death of two or more persons in one collision subject to the amount for one person, and $25,000 for damage to or destruction of property of others in one collision."
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