OFFICE OF THE ATT-ORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS 

AUSTIN 

Honorable Clifford B. Jones, President 

Texas Teohnologlaal College 

Lubbook, Texae 

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Opinion Ko. o-1973 :: ' 

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your letter or rewbiGh read a$ foltea t0 help lor~n~- 

comrsreaoe, which 

bed roundtable dlacueaion 

extension work In Texas. 

een appointad chairman of 

etiqs Gr the Asrroaiation and 

05110 of the Bct~slon Conrerencw 

em to~#sit,ablieh and rrareguard standards 

of college work emi agree on methoda and 
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polioies or procedure. I have attended 

these meetings regularly since the organization of the extension service of Texss Teohnologlosl College, tith profit to this 

service and the best Interest of the College 

in standardizing the service. New problems 

are oonstantly arising and conferences of 

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 P on with the resldent work of the colleges. The problems of 

the latter are the chief a,ncern of the Asso- 

*It will be appreciilted if you will kindly adtise whether the reasonable and proper 

expenses'involved in 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 expenses described is prohibited by House Bill 255 of the Forty-sixth Legislature, 

ths appropriations bill for the state eduoetional lnstitutions 0r higher learning. 

As the meeting to be attended by the Director 

of Extension of the College will be the annual convention of the Aasooiation of Texas Collegeg, probably 

you are oonoerned about the prohibition against the 

payment of the expenses of employees of state departments to conventions whloh appears in Senate Bill 427 

of the 46th Legislature, the general appropriation 

bill for state departments. 

House Bill 255, however, does not contain any 

provision prohibiting 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 to attendanoe upon a 

convention. or Course, any expanses of suoh employees, 

to be payable, must otharwlse be allowable under the 
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various provisions 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 Technological College is one that will result in 

a definite benefit 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 respectfully advised thet 

end proper expenses involved in the proposed tri 

his department that the reesgF;h& 

Director of Extension of the College to the meet f ng of 

the Association of Texas Colleges, April 25th - 27th, 

inolusive, 1940, within the limitations set out in Base 

Bill 255 nm be paid out of available funds of the division oP Ex t ension of Texas Teohnologioal College. 

May we noint out that our oninion No. O-1195 

This~disaus~~on-did not, of aourse, relate in-any res+ot, 

to House Bill 255, whioh, as we have pointed out, does 

mt contain the oonvention prohibition appearing in Senate Bill 427. 

Trusting that we I've satisfactorily answered 

your inquiry, we remain 

Yours very truly 

ATTORNEY GEEER& OF TEY..S 

BY /a/ 

Zollie C. Steakley 

Thsopinion oonsidered and 

approved in Limited Conference.