Bill Text: TX HB2731 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced


Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a member of the State Board of Education to request an attorney general opinion.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-03 - Failed to receive affirmative vote in comm. [HB2731 Detail]

Download: Texas-2023-HB2731-Introduced.html
  88R10540 SCP-D
 
  By: Lozano H.B. No. 2731
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the authority of a member of the State Board of
  Education to request an attorney general opinion.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 402.042(b), Government Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (b)  An opinion may be requested by:
               (1)  the governor;
               (2)  the head of a department of state government;
               (3)  a head or board of a penal institution;
               (4)  a head or board of an eleemosynary institution;
               (5)  the head of a state board;
               (6)  a regent or trustee of a state educational
  institution;
               (7)  a committee of a house of the legislature;
               (8)  a county auditor authorized by law; [or]
               (9)  the chairman of the governing board of a river
  authority; or
               (10)  a member of the State Board of Education.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
  provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
  Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
  Act takes effect September 1, 2023.
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