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.