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Hon. Weldon Hart, page 4 (MS 148)
"b. Specified classes or groups who incur
travel expense in accordance with these regu-
lations, but only when the Bureau of Employ-
ment Security has approved such reimbursement."
(Emphasis added.)
In Opinion No. 8-100 (1953) this office answered
several questions concerning the travel expense allowance
of officers and employees of the Texas Employment Commis-
sion, and held that the travel expense reimbursement paid
from the appropriation of the Unemployment Compensation Ad-
ministration Fund was an "exception" to the general travel
expense limitations imposed by Section 8, Article VI, House
Bill 111 (now Chapter 81), Acts 53rd Legislature, Regular
Session, 1953 (the General Appropriations Act). That opinion
also held:
"Thus, it is the opinion of this office that
if the rules or regulations adopted by the Texas
Employment Commission to govern reimbursement for
travel expense are 'in accordance' with agreements
made between the Commission, the Bureau of Employ-
ment Security and/or the United States Employment
Service or successors, and have been approved by
the appropriate federal authority as complying with
the terms of Federal legislation or regulations
under which moneys are granted to the Commission,
then such rules are controlling on all matters
covered by them, and to that extent the general
travel expense regulations of Article VI, Section
8 do not apply."
The standard which has been established by the Fed-
eral Government relative to the State Advisory Council is
indicated in a letter dated October 15, 1953, from Mr. Ed Mc-
Donald, Regional Director, U. S. Department of Labor, to Mr.
W. H. Farmer, Administrator of Texas Employment Commission.
Mr. McDonald pointed out the requirement for the establish-
ment of a State Advisory Council and authorized the reimburse-
ment of travlexnses incurred by members of the Advisory
ounci of tis State who attended te meeting heldn October,
1953. The reimbursement was authorized to be made out of ad-
ministrative funds and was to include $10 per diem plus sub-
sistence, mileage and other travel expenses allowable under
the terms of the travel regulations of the Texas Employment
Commission.
It is quite clear that the federal funds received
by this State are appropriated by the Legislature for the pur-
pose of conforming and complying with the terms, conditions
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Texas. Attorney-General's Office. Texas Attorney General Opinion: MS-148, text, August 13, 1954; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth276014/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.