By Schechter H.B. No. 1095
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1095:
By Thompson of Harris C.S.H.B. No. 1095
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to persons who may request an attorney general's opinion.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 402.042, Government Code,
1-5 is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) An opinion may be requested by:
1-7 (1) the governor;
1-8 (2) the head of a department of state government;
1-9 (3) a head or board of a penal institution;
1-10 (4) a head or board of an eleemosynary institution;
1-11 (5) the head of a state board;
1-12 (6) a regent or trustee of a state educational
1-13 institution;
1-14 (7) a committee of a house of the legislature;
1-15 (8) a county auditor authorized by law; <or>
1-16 (9) the chairman of the governing board of a river
1-17 authority; or
1-18 (10) the general counsel of a statewide judicial
1-19 training center that receives funds under Section 56.003(b), (c),
1-20 or (d), Government Code.
1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.