By: West  S.B. No. 246
         (In the Senate - Filed January 24, 2013; January 29, 2013,
  read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
  February 6, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote:  
  Yeas 5, Nays 0; February 6, 2013, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the electronic submission of a request for an attorney
  general opinion.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Subsection (c), Section 402.042, Government
  Code, is amended to read as follows:
         (c)  A request for an opinion must be in writing and sent by
  certified or registered mail, with return receipt requested,
  addressed to the office of the attorney general in Austin, or
  electronically to an electronic mail address designated by the
  attorney general for the purpose of receiving requests for opinions
  under this section. The attorney general shall:
               (1)  acknowledge receipt of the request not later than
  the 15th day after the date that it is received; and
               (2)  issue the opinion not later than the 180th day
  after the date that it is received, unless before that deadline the
  attorney general notifies the requesting person in writing that the
  opinion will be delayed or not rendered and states the reasons for
  the delay or refusal.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
 
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