By:  Sibley                                            S.B. No. 626
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the use of in-house counsel by the Texas National
    1-2  Research Laboratory Commission.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (e), Section 402.0211, Government
    1-5  Code, is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (e)  This sections does not apply to:
    1-7              (1)  the governor's office;
    1-8              (2)  an institution of higher education, as defined by
    1-9  Section 61.003, Education code;
   1-10              (3)  an agency expressly authorized by the General
   1-11  Appropriations Act or other statute to hire or select legal
   1-12  counsel;
   1-13              (4)  an agency governed by one or more elected
   1-14  officials;
   1-15              (5)  an agency with a director appointed by the
   1-16  governor;
   1-17              (6)  the Central Education Agency;
   1-18              (7)  the Department of Public Safety;
   1-19              (8)  the Employees Retirement System of Texas or the
   1-20  Teacher Retirement System of Texas;
   1-21              (9)  the Parks and Wildlife Department;
   1-22              (10)  the State Board of Insurance;
   1-23              (11)  the State Highway and Public Transportation
    2-1  Commission or the State Department of Highways and Public
    2-2  Transportation;
    2-3              (12)  the Texas Department of Criminal Justice;
    2-4              (13)  the Texas Employment Commission;
    2-5              (14)  the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board;
    2-6              (15)  the Texas Natural Resource Conservation
    2-7  Commission;
    2-8              (16)  the Texas Workers' Compensation Commission; <or>
    2-9              (17)  the Texas Youth Commission; or
   2-10              (18)  the Texas National Research Laboratory
   2-11  Commission.
   2-12        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect on September 1, 1993.
   2-13        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.