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Amend CSHB 3 in Article III by adding the following
appropriately numbered SECTION and renumbering the other SECTIONS
of Article III accordingly:
SECTION ____. (a) In any action in state or federal court
involving a legal challenge to one or more districts established by
this Act, the attorney general may not retain an attorney who is not
a full-time employee of the office of the attorney general to
represent this state or an officer of this state, or to assist or
advise the attorney general in that representation.
(b) The attorney general may not employ an attorney to
represent this state or an officer of this state, or to assist or
advise the attorney general in that representation, as described by
Subsection (a) of this section, at a salary rate in excess of the
average salary rate paid to the 10 employees of the office of the
attorney general with the highest annual salaries for the month of
January, 2003.