1-1 By: Montford S.B. No. 877
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1993; March 15, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
1-4 April 14, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 9, Nays 0; April 14, 1993,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-9 Harris of Dallas x
1-10 Rosson x
1-11 Carriker x
1-12 Henderson x
1-13 Leedom x
1-14 Lucio x
1-15 Luna x
1-16 Nelson x
1-17 Patterson x
1-18 Shelley x
1-19 Sibley x
1-20 West x
1-21 Whitmire x
1-22 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 877 By: Harris of Dallas
1-23 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-24 AN ACT
1-25 relating to the requirement that the attorney general provide
1-26 certain legal services.
1-27 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-28 SECTION 1. Chapter 301, Government Code, is amended by
1-29 adding Subchapter E to read as follows:
1-30 SUBCHAPTER E. LEGAL REPRESENTATION OF LEGISLATURE
1-31 Sec. 301.061. LEGAL REPRESENTATION OF LEGISLATURE.
1-32 (a) Subject to the requirements of Subsection (b) and to the
1-33 exception provided in Subsection (c), the legislature may employ
1-34 counsel, or authorize the counsel of a legislative agency, to file
1-35 suits on behalf of the legislature, to intervene in pending
1-36 litigation on behalf of the legislature, or to otherwise represent
1-37 the legislature in the courts of this state or in the courts of the
1-38 United States.
1-39 (b) Representation of the legislature under this section is
1-40 authorized only if:
1-41 (1) the speaker and the president of the senate
1-42 approve the representation in writing; or
1-43 (2) both houses by concurrent resolution approve the
1-44 representation.
1-45 (c) Subsection (a) does not apply to the representation of
1-46 the interests of the legislature before the Supreme Court of Texas
1-47 in violation of Article IV, Section 22, of the Texas Constitution.
1-48 SECTION 2. Section 402.0211, Government Code, is repealed.
1-49 SECTION 3. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this
1-50 section, this Act takes effect immediately.
1-51 (b) Section 2 of this Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-52 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-53 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-54 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-55 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-56 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-57 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-58 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-59 * * * * *
1-60 Austin,
1-61 Texas
1-62 April 14, 1993
1-63 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-64 President of the Senate
1-65 Sir:
1-66 We, your Committee on State Affairs to which was referred S.B. No.
1-67 877, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
1-68 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not
2-1 pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do
2-2 pass and be printed.
2-3 Harris of
2-4 Dallas, Chairman
2-5 * * * * *
2-6 WITNESSES
2-7 FOR AGAINST ON
2-8 ___________________________________________________________________
2-9 Name: Karen McNeeley x
2-10 Representing: Indep Bankers Assn of Texas
2-11 City: Austin
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2-13 Name: Max Arrell x
2-14 Representing: Tx Rehabilitation Commission
2-15 City: Austin
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