Bill Text: TX SB246 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled

Texas Senate Bill 246 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the electronic submission of a request for an attorney general opinion.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [SB246 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-SB246-Enrolled.html



	S.B. No. 246




	AN ACT
	relating to the electronic submission of a request for an attorney
	general opinion.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subsection (c), Section 402.042, Government
	Code, is amended to read as follows:
	(c) A request for an opinion must be in writing and sent by
	certified or registered mail, with return receipt requested,
	addressed to the office of the attorney general in Austin, or
	electronically to an electronic mail address designated by the
	attorney general for the purpose of receiving requests for opinions
	under this section. The attorney general shall:
	(1) acknowledge receipt of the request not later than
	the 15th day after the date that it is received; and
	(2) issue the opinion not later than the 180th day
	after the date that it is received, unless before that deadline the
	attorney general notifies the requesting person in writing that the
	opinion will be delayed or not rendered and states the reasons for
	the delay or refusal.
	SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.





	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 246 passed the Senate on
	March 13, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.


	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate

	I hereby certify that S.B. No. 246 passed the House on
	May 16, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, two
	present not voting.


	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House



	Approved:

	______________________________
	Date


	______________________________
	Governor