Funding for legal aid services for indigent Texans could get a boost if the Legislature passes two bills that committees in the House and Senate considered separately on March 18.
The bills would allow more money collected by the Texas attorney general in some actions to fund civil legal aid. The Senate State Affairs Committee voted 7-0 to pass Committee Substitute Senate Bill 635 to the full Senate. The House Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Committee heard testimony but didn’t vote on its companion, House Bill 1445.
