I live in Houston and I got ticketed for my HIDs, but that is because they were 12k Purple. The officer specifically told me that HID's are legal, but they are only allowed to be a yellow, original white, blue, or amber color. They do however have to be DOT specified. If you have a normal/legal color (3k - 10k in the spectrum) and the box you got it in states that they are DOT specified then you should not have received a ticket for them.