By Wolens H.B. No. 274
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the use of in-house counsel by the State Securities
1-3 Board.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subsection (e), Section 402.0211, Government
1-6 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 (e) This section does not apply to:
1-8 (1) the governor's office;
1-9 (2) an institution of higher education, as defined by
1-10 Section 61.003, Education code;
1-11 (3) an agency expressly authorized by the General
1-12 Appropriations Act or other statute to hire or select legal
1-13 counsel;
1-14 (4) an agency governed by one or more elected
1-15 officials;
1-16 (5) an agency with a director appointed by the
1-17 governor;
1-18 (6) the Central Education Agency;
1-19 (7) the Department of Public Safety;
1-20 (8) the Employees Retirement System of Texas or the
1-21 Teacher Retirement System of Texas;
1-22 (9) the Parks and Wildlife Department;
1-23 (10) the State Board of Insurance;
2-1 (11) the State Highway and Public Transportation
2-2 Commission or the State Department of Highways and Public
2-3 Transportation;
2-4 (12) the Texas Department of Criminal Justice;
2-5 (13) the Texas Employment Commission;
2-6 (14) the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board;
2-7 (15) the Texas Natural Resource Conservation
2-8 Commission;
2-9 (16) the Texas Workers' Compensation Commission; <or>
2-10 (17) the Texas Youth Commission; or
2-11 (18) the State Securities Board.
2-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on September 1, 1993.
2-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.