1-1 By: Henderson S.B. No. 118
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 15, 1993; January 19, 1993,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 February 16, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas
1-5 6, Nays 0; February 16, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Henderson x
1-9 Harris of Tarrant x
1-10 Brown x
1-11 Harris of Dallas x
1-12 Luna x
1-13 Parker x
1-14 West x
1-15 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-16 AN ACT
1-17 relating to the use of in-house counsel by the State Securities
1-18 Board.
1-19 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-20 SECTION 1. Subsection (e), Section 402.0211, Government
1-21 Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-22 (e) This section does not apply to:
1-23 (1) the governor's office;
1-24 (2) an institution of higher education, as defined by
1-25 Section 61.003, Education Code;
1-26 (3) an agency expressly authorized by the General
1-27 Appropriations Act or other statute to hire or select legal
1-28 counsel;
1-29 (4) an agency governed by one or more elected
1-30 officials;
1-31 (5) an agency with a director appointed by the
1-32 governor;
1-33 (6) the Central Education Agency;
1-34 (7) the Department of Public Safety;
1-35 (8) the Employees Retirement System of Texas or the
1-36 Teacher Retirement System of Texas;
1-37 (9) the Parks and Wildlife Department;
1-38 (10) the State Board of Insurance;
1-39 (11) the State Highway and Public Transportation
1-40 Commission or the State Department of Highways and Public
1-41 Transportation;
1-42 (12) the Texas Department of Criminal Justice;
1-43 (13) the Texas Employment Commission;
1-44 (14) the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board;
1-45 (15) the Texas Natural Resource Conservation
1-46 Commission;
1-47 (16) the Texas Workers' Compensation Commission; <or>
1-48 (17) the Texas Youth Commission; or
1-49 (18) the State Securities Board.
1-50 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-51 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-52 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-53 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-54 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-55 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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1-57 Austin,
1-58 Texas
1-59 February 16,
1-60 1993
1-61 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-62 President of the Senate
1-63 Sir:
1-64 We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred S.B.
1-65 No. 118, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
1-66 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-67 pass and be printed.
1-68 Henderson,
2-1 Chairman
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2-3 WITNESSES
2-4 FOR AGAINST ON
2-5 ___________________________________________________________________
2-6 Name: Polly Powell x
2-7 Representing: Self
2-8 City: Driftwood
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2-10 Name: Patsy Nichols x
2-11 Representing: Self
2-12 City: Austin
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