H.B. No. 37
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the acceptance of gifts and grants by the attorney
    1-3  general.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 402.005, Government Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 402.005.  ACCEPTANCE OF GIFTS AND GRANTS <MONEY>.  (a)
    1-8  The attorney general may not accept or use money offered by an
    1-9  individual, firm, partnership, or association for investigating or
   1-10  prosecuting a matter.
   1-11        (b)  The attorney general may accept gifts and grants on
   1-12  behalf of the state for purposes related to duties performed by the
   1-13  attorney general or to public educational opportunities, unless the
   1-14  acceptance is prohibited under Subsection (a) or other law.  Money
   1-15  received under this subsection shall be deposited in the state
   1-16  treasury to the credit of an account established in the general
   1-17  revenue fund for the receipt of those funds.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-23  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-24  passage, and it is so enacted.