Bill Text: TX HB1918 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to publication by the attorney general of a contingent fee contract for legal services for political subdivisions and related information.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-11 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB1918 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB1918-Comm_Sub.html
88R9860 SCL-D | ||
By: Lopez of Cameron, Neave Criado, | H.B. No. 1918 | |
Jones of Harris, Orr, Rosenthal, et al. |
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relating to publication by the attorney general of a contingent fee | ||
contract for legal services for political subdivisions and related | ||
information. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 2254.1038(b), Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) Within 90 days after receiving a contract from a | ||
political subdivision, the attorney general: | ||
(1) shall publish the contract and the information | ||
filed under Subsection (a) related to the contract on the attorney | ||
general's Internet website; and | ||
(2) may: | ||
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the requirements of this subchapter were not fulfilled; or | ||
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because: | ||
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subject of the contract presents one or more questions of law or | ||
fact that are in common with a matter the state has already | ||
addressed or is pursuing; and | ||
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political subdivision will not promote the just and efficient | ||
resolution of the matter. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 2254.1038(b), Government Code, as | ||
amended by this Act, applies only to a contract filed on or after | ||
the effective date of this Act. A contract filed before the | ||
effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it existed | ||
immediately before the effective date of this Act, and that law is | ||
continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |