bill excusing appointed state officials from legal education hours

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89R9932 AMF-D

By: Kitzman
H.B. No. 5570

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the minimum continuing legal education requirements for

an attorney serving as a state official appointed by the governor

and confirmed by the senate.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

SECTION 1. Section 81.113(a), 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 :

(1) employed full-time as an attorney by:

(A) [ (1) ] the senate;

(B) [ (2) ] the house of representatives;

(C) [ (3) ] a committee, division, department, or

office of the senate or house;

(D) [ (4) ] the Texas Legislative Council;

(E) [ (5) ] the Legislative Budget Board;

(F) [ (6) ] the Legislative Reference Library;

(G) [ (7) ] the office of the state auditor; or

(H) [ (8) ] the Sunset Advisory Commission ; or

(2) serving as a state official appointed by the

governor and confirmed by the senate .

SECTION 2. Section 81.113, Government Code, as amended by

this Act, applies only to the minimum requirements for a continuing

legal education compliance year that ends on or after September 1,

2025. The minimum requirements for continuing legal education for

a compliance year that ends before September 1, 2025, are covered by

the law and rules in effect when the compliance year ended, and that

law and those rules are continued in effect for that purpose.

SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.