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L’ OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS
AUSTIN
by the State. tlnx and rlloneg ate ~it5 retard to for- treat&& a3d cpratLon3 up0 xa3, ~your repre- mntative mds
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the trip amearing on the Ccmptroller 20 as iol.lowst o_uest or aheirrilan mind, to see i&e.
0 elcglain plans of r a prevention of blirtdnesa he approval of the State Fed- availcble for perfcrxins these servioes,~ .Tal.k- : ea vilth doctors aQove nezed and Dr. I:urst and Dr. zykcs, exgt.aininS the progrm. Secured the to speck on this ‘subject to’ the gsneral‘m @mup 0P eye s_aecialists Qt a ctuag meeting they were attertding. Secui*cd t&e Rp~Oill’iXzCR~ Of a comnittee of eye specialiSta tc work with the Com&nf3ion totirmlate ite $o&.ici.os Govern- in:: its treatient of eye cases. *2 -.-
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,&mDrable Bruner R- Penniman, Chairman, ‘Page 2
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, . . i *Advised with Uiss %mberly of the %ston ) <Lighthouse on how to secure igormtion on I : ._. _i. . . market supply on mops. s i t
by the Go&troller i?et the trip Kas not ror State business purposes. ‘The :Q=.ptroller raises the question that the trip was to a con- / tQntion and advance wrltten approval of it cas not obtaiped
fras the AttOrneY General, as required by the folloviing i rger t 0 the current departmautal. approprl’ation b&l.l: f ,,Vo ‘moneys’ her& appropriated sha$l ever ‘. ” f be spent. to pay the traveling expenses of any ..’ ! state employee to any. type of couvention with- ‘, in ,the State or without the State, except upon advance mitten approval of the Attorney Genar- 1 -a as. being for State’s’ business.W ~’ . . .
bnaer t&i. rider, mhere an emnioyee d? the’ State attends a convention, he must obtain tr& the Attorney Gen- j crab before making the trip a written approval of the pur- I Faze or the trip as- being for the transaotion of+ State ‘8 i business, else .his, traveling expenses canpot be paid. ;
Your letter and’socompanyin& infornat ion reveais ‘. .* ’ ! tSat the employee of the Comissl~n went to-Gaston’ to a
j Qoaoention. “ihe fact that the employee was not .a member
oi the hedioal Assooi%tion and .was not interested in and / did not attend upon ~the general proceedings -of the ~conven- tlon does not render the trip any the less a trip. to ~a 9 ; CC~~entidn. The rider was designed to ,uover any a al
QLtuations where an eutplqyee travels to.a convention, i *kQther as a member or delegate of’ the organization con- TQning, as an invited guest speaker, or simply as an em-~ floyee of the State having business of the State to trans- QQt at the convention. In fact, the .usual .sltwtbon pre- QQated wder t,Mis rider ia done viherein the ,emplofie of CQ State is enabled, beoause the convention assembles %ether a number of people he must oontaot for the State, te do his job at less expense there than by +alling upon tte~ individuals severally. Nevertheless, the Legislature has =+&red advance written approval by the Attorney ^rrseral or such trips, and~ the legislative mandate is *3 fftiisfItorY upon the aocountlng orfi,cer or the State.
We regrfst to aUvlse that, under the olm~mstano&s, (?.r traveling ~~P~LW~~ inVOlV0d OaMOt be pal&
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