Bill Text: TX HB1007 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the authority of a member of the legislature to request an attorney general opinion.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-26 - Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence [HB1007 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB1007-Introduced.html
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| By: Collier | H.B. No. 1007 | |
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| relating to the authority of a member of the legislature 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 member [ |
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| legislature; | ||
| (8) a county auditor authorized by law; or | ||
| (9) the chairman of the governing board of a river | ||
| authority. | ||
| 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, 2019. | ||
