S.W.3d at 376-77 (recognizing that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is a state agency subject to the TCHRA’s waiver of immunity); Tex. Dep’t of Criminal Justice v. Cooke, 149 S.W.3d 700, 704 (Tex.App.-Austin 2004, no pet.) (stating that the TCHRA “provides a limited waiver of sovereign immunity when a governmental unit has committed employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, disability, religion, sex, national origin, or age”) (emphasis added); King v. Tex. Dep’t of Human Servs. ex rel. Bost, 28 S.W.3d 27, 30 (Tex.App.-Austin 2000, no pet.) (recognizing that the TCHRA “contains such a waiver [of sovereign immunity] by including state agencies in the Act’s definition of ‘employer’ ”); Sauls v. Montgomery County, 18 S.W.3d 310, 315 (Tex.App.-Beaumont 2000, no pet.) (<HOLDING>). The Beaumont court in Sauls succinctly
holding that an act of legislature may be required to waive sovereign immunity holding that a claim that sovereign immunity has been waived is itself waived if not argued on appeal holding that the sovereign immunity afforded to tribes extends to their governmental organizations and business entities holding that the legislature has in clear and unambiguous language waived sovereign immunity against elected public officials and governmental entities defined by the act to be employers recognizing that the state enjoys sovereign immunity in regard to tort actions unless the legislature waived immunity pursuant to a specific statute