TITLE: Relating to approval by the comptroller of public accounts of certain contingent fee legal services contracts entered into by public agencies.

SUMMARY: Relating to approval by the comptroller of public accounts of certain contingent fee legal services contracts entered into by public agencies.

FULL TEXT:
AN ACT relating to approval by the comptroller of public accounts of certain contingent fee legal services contracts entered into by public agencies. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 403.0305, Government Code, is amended to read as follows: Sec. 403.0305. APPROVAL BY COMPTROLLER. A public agency as defined under Section 30.003(3), Water Code, may not enter into a contract as provided by Subchapter C, Chapter 2254, to bring a suit under the Water Code in which the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is a necessary and indispensable party without review and approval of the contract by the comptroller. SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only to a contract entered into on or after the effective date of this Act. A contract entered into before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law applicable to the contract 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, 2017.