By: Bivins S.B. No. 64
73R694 KLL-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the representation of persons before executive agencies
1-3 by members of the legislature.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 7(a), Chapter 421, Acts of the 63rd
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 6252-9b, Vernon's Texas
1-7 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-8 (a) No member of the legislature shall, for compensation,
1-9 represent another person before a state agency in the executive
1-10 branch of state government <unless:>
1-11 <(1) the representation is made in a proceeding that
1-12 is adversary in nature or other public hearing which is a matter of
1-13 record; or>
1-14 <(2) the representation involves the filing of
1-15 documents, contacts with such agency, or other relations, which
1-16 involve only ministerial acts on the part of the commission,
1-17 agency, board, department, or officer>.
1-18 SECTION 2. Section 4(g), Chapter 421, Acts of the 63rd
1-19 Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 6252-9b, Vernon's Texas
1-20 Civil Statutes), is repealed.
1-21 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-22 SECTION 4. 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.