By:  Naishtat                                         H.B. No. 1501
       73R5619 JRD-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the use of in-house counsel to provide legal services
    1-3  for the Texas School for the Deaf and the Texas School for the
    1-4  Blind and Visually Impaired.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 402.0211(e), Government Code, is amended
    1-7  to read as follows:
    1-8        (e)  This section does not apply to:
    1-9              (1)  the governor's office;
   1-10              (2)  an institution of higher education, as defined by
   1-11  Section 61.003, Education Code;
   1-12              (3)  an agency expressly authorized by the General
   1-13  Appropriations Act or other statute to hire or select legal
   1-14  counsel;
   1-15              (4)  an agency governed by one or more elected
   1-16  officials;
   1-17              (5)  an agency with a director appointed by the
   1-18  governor;
   1-19              (6)  the Central Education Agency;
   1-20              (7)  the Department of Public Safety;
   1-21              (8)  the Employees Retirement System of Texas or the
   1-22  Teacher Retirement System of Texas;
   1-23              (9)  the Parks and Wildlife Department;
   1-24              (10)  the State Board of Insurance;
    2-1              (11)  the Texas <State Highway and Public>
    2-2  Transportation Commission or the Texas <State> Department of
    2-3  <Highways and Public> 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;
   2-11              (18)  the Texas School for the Deaf; or
   2-12              (19)  the Texas School for the Blind and Visually
   2-13  Impaired.
   2-14        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   2-15        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.