85R10518 JG-D     By: Muñoz, Jr. H.B. No. 2175       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to the persons authorized to submit a request for an   attorney general opinion.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 402.042(b), Government Code, is amended   to read as follows:          (b)  An opinion may be requested by:                (1)  the governor;                (2)  the head of a department of state government;                (3)  a head or board of a penal institution;                (4)  a head or board of an eleemosynary institution;                (5)  the head of a state board;                (6)  a regent or trustee of a state educational   institution;                (7)  a chair or vice chair of a committee of a house of   the legislature;                (8)  a county auditor authorized by law; or                (9)  the chairman of the governing board of a river   authority.          SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.