By:  Schechter                                        H.B. No. 1095
       73R3599 MWV-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to requests for an opinion of the attorney general.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 402.042(b), Government Code, is amended
    1-5  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 executive director of a statewide judicial
   1-19  training center that receives funds under Section 56.003(b), (c),
   1-20  or (d).
   1-21        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.