Bill Text: TX HB2175 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the persons authorized to submit a request for an attorney general opinion.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-05-01 - Left pending in committee [HB2175 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB2175-Introduced.html

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85R10518 JG-D
By: Muñoz, Jr. H.B. No. 2175

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the persons authorized to submit a request for 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 chair or vice chair of 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.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.