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Hon. Robert S. Calvert, Page 3 (V-1241)
operating in the Council of State Governments. The Council
was declared to be a "joint governmental agency of this State
and of the other States which co-operate with it." The hold -
ing in that opinion has application to the question you present.
The Texas Commission on Uniform State Laws is similar in
character to the Texas Commission on Interstate Co-opera-
tion. Both will act with other states co-operating with the
Council of State Governments.
The Legislature, no doubt, considered that certain
direct public benefits would flow to the State from acting with
other states co-operating in the Council of State Governments
and in the National Conference, and we therefore think the ap-
propriation in question is for a public purpose for which the
Act itself is pre-existing law.
We have been favored with an able memorandum brief
on the question presented by the Honorable Ben H. Powell, Chair-
man of the Texas Board of Commissioners to the National Con-
ference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, in which it is
pointed out that the first meeting of the National Conference was
held in 1892,. In the nearly sixty years of its existence the Confer-
ence has drafted and approved one hundred seven uniform acts.
Texas has adopted some fifteen of these acts.
Moreover, Senate Bill 322 creating a State Commission
on Uniform State Laws and carrying the appropriation which is
the subject of your inquiry is one of seven of these uniform acts
adopted by the Fifty-second Legislature. Thus, it is clear that
the Legislature deemed the appropriation to be for a public pur-
pose and that it will produce public benefits. Texas for many
years has participated in the conference through its commis-
sioners, serving by appointment of the Governor, without com-
pensation or reimbursement for necessary expenses. We under-
stand that Texas has not heretofore paid any of the expense of
the Conference. It appears that the Legislature decided that
the State, having benefited from the Conference for years, should
pay part of the expense of the Conference for the next two years.
W think the appropriation in question is authorized
as one for a public purpose. Of course, the appropriation will
not be valid for a longer term than two years.
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Texas. Attorney-General's Office. Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-1241, text, August 17, 1951; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth266059/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.