By:  Cuellar, R.                                        H.B. No. 37
       73R1145 MJW-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    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, corporation, or association for
   1-10  investigating or 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 and may be appropriated
   1-18  only for the purposes for which the money was given.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-24  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-1  passage, and it is so enacted.