By: Wentworth  S.B. No. 820
         (In the Senate - Filed February 22, 2007; March 7, 2007,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
  March 29, 2007, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 5,
  Nays 1; March 29, 2007, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the minimum continuing legal education requirements for
  an attorney who is a member of the Texas Legislature.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 81.113, Government Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
         (d)  Notwithstanding Section 4(H), Article XII, State Bar
  Rules, or any other rule adopted by the supreme court, the state bar
  may not credit an attorney licensed in this state with meeting the
  minimum continuing legal education requirements of the state bar
  for a compliance year if the credit is based solely on the
  attorney's service as a member of the Texas Senate or Texas House of
  Representatives.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to a continuing legal education compliance year that ends on or
  after September 1, 2008. The requirements for continuing legal
  education for a compliance year that ends before September 1, 2008,
  are covered by the law and rules in effect when the compliance year
  ended, and those laws and rules are continued in effect for that
  purpose.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2007.
 
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