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1973-1978 Texas Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (1973-1978)

handle is hein.sag/sagtx0010 and id is 1 raw text is: ATTORNEY GENERAL March 16, 1973 Honorable Robert W. Calvert Chairman, Texas Constitutional Revision Commission Austin, Texas Honorable Robert S. Calvert Comptroller of Public Accounts Austin, Texas Letter Advisory No. 1 Gentlemen: Please consider this Letter Advisory as our answer to your recent inquiry concerning various fiscal questions arising under S. C. R.l1, rather than a formal opinion of this office, since we understand that time is of the essence. We wish to thank you for Judge Calvert's letter of March 15, 1973, with which he forwarded minutes of the March 10 meeting of the Budget Committee of the Constitutional Revision Commis- sion. One preliminary question arises from the fact that S. C. R. 1 is a concurrent resolution and not a bill. Ordinarily, all laws must be passed by bill and not by resolution [ Const. Art. 3, § 30 and Interpretive Commentary thereto], and, accordingly, a statute cannot be amended by resolution. 53 Tex. Jur. 2d, Statutes, § 6, p.13. In this instance, however, S. C. R. 1 was adopted in direct obedience to the mandate of Sec. 2 of § 2 of Article 17 of the Constitution that When the legislature convenes in regular session in January, 1973, it shall provide by concurrent resolution for the establishment df a constitutional revision commission.