TITLE: 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.

SUMMARY: 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.

FULL TEXT:
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.