Retention or Employment of Attorneys
Outside Legal Counsel Representing a Plaintiff in a Proceeding Against the State
Appropriated funds may not be used to retain outside legal counsel to represent the state or any of its state governmental entities in a contested matter if the outside legal counsel is also representing a plaintiff in a proceeding seeking monetary damages from the state or any of its state governmental entities.
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General Appropriations Act, Article IX, Section 16.01(j).
Texas Attorney General Opinion MW-191 (1980).
