Tex. Gov't Code § 82.039 · Subchapter B. LICENSING OF ATTORNEYS
LICENSING GUIDELINES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) To assist the Board of Law Examiners in making consistent and fair determinations related to the licensing of attorneys in this state, the board shall develop specific guidelines for:
(1) determining the moral character and fitness of license applicants;
(2) overseeing probationary license holders; and
(3) granting waiver requests.
(b) The Board of Law Examiners shall develop the guidelines required under Subsection (a) based on the board's past decisions and on any other criteria the board considers necessary. The board is not required to take any specific action provided in the guidelines.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2017, 85th Leg., R.S., Ch. 532 (S.B. 303), Sec. 10, eff. September 1, 2017.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.82.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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