1-1 By: Cuellar of Hidalgo (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos) H.B. No. 37
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1993;
1-3 April 27, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Finance; May 13, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 12, Nays 0; May 13, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Montford x
1-9 Turner x
1-10 Armbrister x
1-11 Barrientos x
1-12 Bivins x
1-13 Ellis x
1-14 Haley x
1-15 Moncrief x
1-16 Parker x
1-17 Ratliff x
1-18 Sims x
1-19 Truan x
1-20 Zaffirini x
1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-22 AN ACT
1-23 relating to the acceptance of gifts and grants by the attorney
1-24 general.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Section 402.005, Government Code, is amended to
1-27 read as follows:
1-28 Sec. 402.005. ACCEPTANCE OF GIFTS AND GRANTS <MONEY>.
1-29 (a) The attorney general may not accept or use money offered by an
1-30 individual, firm, partnership, or association for investigating or
1-31 prosecuting a matter.
1-32 (b) The attorney general may accept gifts and grants on
1-33 behalf of the state for purposes related to duties performed by the
1-34 attorney general or to public educational opportunities, unless the
1-35 acceptance is prohibited under Subsection (a) or other law. Money
1-36 received under this subsection shall be deposited in the state
1-37 treasury to the credit of an account established in the general
1-38 revenue fund for the receipt of those funds.
1-39 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-40 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-41 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-42 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-43 days in each house be suspended, and that this Act take effect and
1-44 be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.
1-45 * * * * *
1-46 Austin,
1-47 Texas
1-48 May 13, 1993
1-49 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-50 President of the Senate
1-51 Sir:
1-52 We, your Committee on Finance to which was referred H.B. No. 37,
1-53 have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
1-54 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-55 pass and be printed.
1-56 Montford,
1-57 Chairman
1-58 * * * * *
1-59 WITNESSES
1-60 FOR AGAINST ON
1-61 ___________________________________________________________________
1-62 Name: Drew T. Durham x
1-63 Representing: Office of the Attorney General
1-64 City: Austin
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