By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1159 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the participation in pro bono legal services to 1-2 low-income Texans by some attorney employees of the State of Texas. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Article 6252-9b is amended by adding Sec. 16 to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 (a) Attorneys who are state employees as defined under Sec. 1-7 2(7)(A) and (C) of this Act may provide pro bono legal services to 1-8 poor clients without compensation. Such services may not conflict 1-9 with the attorney employee's official duties or the interests of 1-10 the State. 1-11 (b) Each agency or legislative office head may adopt 1-12 guidelines concerning the participation of attorney employees in 1-13 pro bono legal services to the poor. 1-14 (c) Attorney employees providing pro bono legal services to 1-15 the poor shall not represent to any client or any other person that 1-16 they are acting on behalf of the State of Texas or any subdivision 1-17 thereof. 1-18 (d) The State of Texas and its subdivisions assume no 1-19 liability for the pro bono activities performed by attorney 1-20 employees. 1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on September 1, 1993. 1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.