88R9860 SCL-D
By: Lopez of Cameron, Neave Criado, H.B. No. 1918
Jones of Harris, Orr, Rosenthal, et al.
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
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:
(A) [(1)] approve the contract;
(B) [(2)] refuse to approve the contract because
the requirements of this subchapter were not fulfilled; or
(C) [(3)] refuse to approve the contract
because:
(i) [(A)] the legal matter that is the
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
(ii) [(B)] pursuit of the matter by the
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.