at DFW International Airport, where hundreds of people work. This construction is inconsistent with the stated purposes of the TCHRA, as well as with the legislature’s prior actions that broadened the reach of the TCHRA by broadly defining “state agency.” Our statutory construction analysis compels the conclusion that the legislature intended to include organizations like the DFW Board within the scope of the term “state instrumentality.” Other courts, including this court in Tarrant County Hospital District v. Henry, have likewise held that an entity created pursuant to Texas statutory authority, and whose purpose includes the performance of public and governmental functions are a state instrumentality. See, e.g., 52 S.W.3d 434, 445-48 (Tex.App.-Fort Worth 2001, no pet.) (<HOLDING>); Purdin, 143 S.W.3d at 301 (holding economic
holding that an entity majorityowned by an agency or instrumentality of a foreign state is itself an agency or instrumentality of that foreign state under the fsia holding economic development corporation to be state instrumentality subject to claims made under the tchra and explaining that the employment discrimination prohibitions in chapter 21 are to be generally applied holding hospital district to be state instrumentality subject to claims made under tchra holding that a state agency is not a person subject to suit under federal false claims act holding school district  in claim made pri or to amendment defining state agency to be state instrumentality subject to claims made under tchra