By Oliveira H.B. No. 1337
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to a conflict of interest.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. TITLE 2, CHAPTER 11, SECTION 11.0122. Conflict
1-5 of Interest is repealed.
1-6 <An employee or paid consultant of a statewide association in
1-7 the field of conservation or outdoor recreation may not be a
1-8 commission member or employee of the department, nor may a person
1-9 who cohabits with or is the spouse of a managerial employee or paid
1-10 consultant of a statewide association in the field of conservation
1-11 or outdoor recreation be a member of the commission or an employee
1-12 of the department grade 17 or over, including exempt employees,
1-13 according to the position classification schedule under the General
1-14 Appropriations Act.>
1-15 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition for the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.