OFFICE OF THE ATT-ORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN

Honorable Clifford B. Jones, President Texas Teohnologlaal College Lubbook, Texae
Gear Sir: ,." ,,'', Opinion Ko. o-1973 :: '

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comrsreaoe, which bed roundtable dlacueaion extension work In Texas. een appointad chairman of
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### orprocedure. I have attended thesemeetings regularly sincethe organization of the extension service of Texss Teohnologlosl College,tith profit to this serviceand the best Interest of the College in standardizingthe service. New problems are oonstantlyarisingand conferencesof the extension direotors are neoessery to solve them. Then, too, the vnrk of the extension

### divisions of the res ec must be kept in proper 1%~ oolleges relat Ponwith the resldent work of the colleges. The problems of the latter are the chief a,ncern of the Asso-

*Itwill be appreciilted if you will kindly adtise whether the reasonableand proper expenses'involvedin such trip are euthor4ved for payment out of available funds of said Division of Extension of this College."
Your inquiry is directed to the question of whether the payment of the expensesdescribed is prohibited by House Bill 255 of the Forty-sixthLegislature, ths appropriations bill for the state eduoetionallnstitutions

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As the meeting to be attendedby the Director of Extension of the Collegewill be the annual convention of the Aasooiation of Texas Collegeg,probably you are oonoernedabout the prohibitionagainst the payment of the expenses of employees of state departments to conventionswhloh appears in Senate Bill 427 of the 46th Legislature, the general appropriation bill for state departments.

House Bill 255, however, does not containany provisionprohibiting the payment ef expenses inourred b anployees of the.state educational lnst;ttution of d gher learning, irrespeotlve of other considerations, if such expenses arise~incident toattendanoe upon a convention. 

### or Course, any expanses of suoh employees, to be payable,must otharwlsebe allowable undertheHonorable Clifford B. Jones, Page 3

variousprovisions of Hooe Bill 2z.E, with the limitations therein set out.

From your statement of facts, it appears thet the proposed trip by the Direction of Extension of Texas TechnologicalCollege is onethat will result in a definitebenefit to one phase of the xork of the institution; that it is naf:,e annually by the Diredtor of Extension,with profit to the college; that itwill be devoted to matters peculiarly effecting the work of.the Department of Extension; end presumably, of oourse, will be m:,de

with the approval of those in authority as being en expense necessarily incident to the functions of the oollege.

Aooordingly, ou it is the opinion of i! are respectfullyadvised thet end proper expenses involved in the proposed tri his department that the reesgF;h& Director of Extension of the College to the meet ng f of theAssociation of Texas Colleges,April 25th - 27th, inolusive,1940, within the limitations set **out** in Base Bill 255 nm be paid out ofavailable funds of the division oP Ex ension

t of Texas TeohnologioalCollege. May we noint **out** that **our** oninionNo. O-1195

This~disaus~~on-didnot, of aourse, relate in-any res+ot, to House Bill 255, whioh, aswe have pointed out, does mt contain the oonvention prohibitionappearing in Senate Bill 427.

Trusting thatwe I've satisfactorilyanswered **your** inquiry,we remain
Yours very truly
ATTORNEY GEEER& OF TEY..S 

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Zollie C. Steakley

Thsopinion oonsideredand approved in Limited Conference.