1-1  By:  Grusendorf (Senate Sponsor - Carriker)           H.B. No. 1773
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1993;
    1-3  May 12, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
    1-4  May 19, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 13,
    1-5  Nays 0; May 19, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Montford           x                               
    1-9        Turner             x                               
   1-10        Armbrister         x                               
   1-11        Barrientos         x                               
   1-12        Bivins             x                               
   1-13        Ellis              x                               
   1-14        Haley              x                               
   1-15        Moncrief           x                               
   1-16        Parker             x                               
   1-17        Ratliff            x                               
   1-18        Sims               x                               
   1-19        Truan              x                               
   1-20        Zaffirini          x                               
   1-21                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-22                                AN ACT
   1-23  relating to the use of in-house counsel by the Banking Department
   1-24  of Texas.
   1-25        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-26        SECTION 1.  Section 402.0211(e), Government Code, is amended
   1-27  to read as follows:
   1-28        (e)  This section does not apply to:
   1-29              (1)  the governor's office;
   1-30              (2)  an institution of higher education, as defined by
   1-31  Section 61.003, Education Code;
   1-32              (3)  an agency expressly authorized by the General
   1-33  Appropriations Act or other statute to hire or select legal
   1-34  counsel;
   1-35              (4)  an agency governed by one or more elected
   1-36  officials;
   1-37              (5)  an agency with a director appointed by the
   1-38  governor;
   1-39              (6)  the Central Education Agency;
   1-40              (7)  the Department of Public Safety;
   1-41              (8)  the Employees Retirement System of Texas or the
   1-42  Teacher Retirement System of Texas;
   1-43              (9)  the Parks and Wildlife Department;
   1-44              (10)  the State Board of Insurance;
   1-45              (11)  the State Highway and Public Transportation
   1-46  Commission or the State Department of Highways and Public
   1-47  Transportation;
   1-48              (12)  the Texas Department of Criminal Justice;
   1-49              (13)  the Texas Employment Commission;
   1-50              (14)  the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board;
   1-51              (15)  the Texas Natural Resource Conservation
   1-52  Commission;
   1-53              (16)  the Texas Workers' Compensation Commission; <or>
   1-54              (17)  the Texas Youth Commission; or
   1-55              (18)  the Banking Department of Texas.
   1-56        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-57        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-58  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-59  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-60  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-61  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-63                                                         Austin,
   1-64  Texas
   1-65                                                         May 19, 1993
   1-66  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-67  President of the Senate
   1-68  Sir:
    2-1  We, your Committee on Finance to which was referred H.B. No. 1773,
    2-2  have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
    2-3  report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
    2-4  pass and be printed.
    2-5                                                         Montford,
    2-6  Chairman
    2-7                               * * * * *
    2-8                               WITNESSES
    2-9                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
   2-10  ___________________________________________________________________
   2-11  Name:  Catherine A. Ghiglieri, Commissioner                    x
   2-12  Representing:  Texas Banking Dept.
   2-13  City:  Austin
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   2-15  Name:  Karen Neeley, General Counsel             x
   2-16  Representing:  Ind. Bankers Assn of Texas
   2-17  City:  Austin
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