Bill Text: TX SB1476 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the minimum continuing legal education requirements for an attorney employed in the executive branch of state government.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-04 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB1476 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-SB1476-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Hegar | S.B. No. 1476 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2011; March 22, 2011, read | ||
| first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; | ||
| March 30, 2011, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7, | ||
| Nays 0; March 30, 2011, sent to printer.) | ||
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| relating to the minimum continuing legal education requirements for | ||
| an attorney employed in the executive branch of state government. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 81.113, Government Code, | ||
| is amended to read as follows: | ||
| (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the state bar | ||
| shall credit an attorney licensed in this state with meeting the | ||
| minimum continuing legal education requirements of the state bar | ||
| for a reporting year if during the reporting year the attorney is | ||
| employed full-time as an attorney by: | ||
| (1) the senate; | ||
| (2) the house of representatives; | ||
| (3) a committee, division, department, or office of | ||
| the senate or house; | ||
| (4) the Texas Legislative Council; | ||
| (5) the Legislative Budget Board; | ||
| (6) the Legislative Reference Library; | ||
| (7) the office of the state auditor; [ |
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| (8) the Sunset Advisory Commission; or | ||
| (9) a board, commission, department, agency, office, | ||
| or other entity in the executive branch of this state's government. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to a continuing legal education compliance year that ends on or | ||
| after September 1, 2012. The requirements for continuing legal | ||
| education for a compliance year that ends before September 1, 2012, | ||
| are covered by the law and rules in effect when the compliance year | ||
| ended, and those laws and rules are continued in effect for that | ||
| purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. | ||
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