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      By Hilbert                                      H.B. No. 3311

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the compensation paid to outside counsel by a state

 1-3     agency.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 402.0212, Subchapter B, Chapter 402,

 1-6     Government Code, is amended by adding Subsection (d) to read as

 1-7     follows:

 1-8           (d)  Unless an alternative fee arrangement is approved in

 1-9     advance by the legislature, compensation paid by a state agency in

1-10     the executive department to an attorney shall be based on a

1-11     reasonable hourly rate of service and the number of hours of

1-12     service provided to the state agency, plus reasonable expenses

1-13     actually incurred by the attorney and approved in advance by the

1-14     state agency and the attorney general.

1-15           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-16           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.