By: Hegar S.B. No. 1476

(In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2011; March 22, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; March 30, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 30, 2011, sent to printer.)

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the minimum continuing legal education requirements for an attorney employed in the executive branch of state government.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 81.113, Government Code, is amended to read as follows:

(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the state bar shall credit an attorney licensed in this state with meeting the minimum continuing legal education requirements of the state bar for a reporting year if during the reporting year the attorney is employed full-time as an attorney by:

(1) the senate;

(2) the house of representatives;

(3) a committee, division, department, or office of the senate or house;

(4) the Texas Legislative Council;

(5) the Legislative Budget Board;

(6) the Legislative Reference Library;

(7) the office of the state auditor; [or]

(8) the Sunset Advisory Commission; or

(9) a board, commission, department, agency, office, or other entity in the executive branch of this state's government.

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, 2012. The requirements for continuing legal education for a compliance year that ends before September 1, 2012, 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, 2011.

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