Updated at 3:20 p.m. with a statement from the Texas Department of Public Safety and at 2:50 p.m. with comment from Rep. Poncho Nevarez, D-Eagle Pass.

AUSTIN — Police lifted an evacuation order at the state Capitol on Tuesday after determining that a suspicious package delivered to a Democratic lawmaker posed "no viable threat" to public safety.

State Rep. Poncho Nevarez, who represents parts of Texas along the U.S.-Mexico border, told The Dallas Morning News he learned Tuesday morning that his office was evacuated after he was sent a suspicious package. Several other offices in the immediate vicinity were emptied, and law enforcement was stationed in the hallway.

The limited evacuation order was lifted hours later after a bomb squad from the Texas Department of Public Safety determined that the package wasn't a threat.

"[DPS] responded to a suspicious package and letter that were delivered to a state representative's office at the Texas Capitol today," spokesman Tom Vinger said in a prepared statement. "DPS officers, including the DPS Bomb Squad, responded to the scene, and a limited area of the Capitol Extension was evacuated as a precautionary measure. DPS has cleared the scene and no viable threat was discovered, and the area was reopened to the public."

1 / 2Democratic state Rep. Poncho Nevarez (pictured in 2017) was at home in Eagle Pass when a suspicious package was found at his office in the State Capitol .(Ricardo Brazziell / Associated Press) 2 / 2State representative Trent Ashby, R-Lufkin, right, congratulates Alfonso "Poncho" Nevarez, D-Eagle Pass, left, after they were both named Freshman of the Year in the House during the final session of the 83rd Texas legislature at the State Capitol in Austin on Monday, May 27, 2013. (File 2013 / Staff)

Nevarez, who was at home in Eagle Pass, said didn't know what was in the package. It was discovered just days after a Florida man was arrested on charges of sending pipe bombs to critics of President Donald Trump.

"I couldn't tell you if it is a bomb or not. All I know is it was just something that was odd," Nevarez said. "I understand they got everybody out of there. ... Everyone's good. Everyone's far from danger."

.@DonnaHowardTX said she tried to get into her office but was redirected away because she was informed there was a threat https://t.co/5h7bhQcAKq — Rebekah Allen (@rebekahallen) October 30, 2018

The evacuation order was limited to the area around Nevarez's office, which is in a back hallway of an underground extension, and went unnoticed elsewhere in the Capitol. Visitors were still being admitted to the building, a popular tourist attraction, and staffers were busy working in other offices.

Reps. Donna Howard, an Austin Democrat, Briscoe Cain, a Deer Park Republican, and Matt Schaefer, a Tyler Republican, confirmed that their offices also had evacuated. Schaefer broke the news Tuesday when he tweeted about the evacuations.

"DPS has evacuated my staff in our Capitol office along with other offices in the vicinity due to a suspicious package," Schaefer tweeted. He later told The News that he was not the target of the package.

"I have spoken to the Director of DPS," Schaefer told The News via text message. "What I can share is that we don't believe there is a direct threat to individual staff. The package was not in my office. I don't know exactly where. They evacuated my office, the other offices on our hallway and the hallway above us. I have other details I cannot share."