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The Committee on Legal Services opened its 2026 session with housekeeping — electing Representative Javier Mabrey chair and Senator Frizell vice chair, adopting two technical rule changes, and hearing a litigation update — but the substantive conversation was about money: whether the $250 hourly rate paid to outside counsel is too low to attract lawyers.
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·Election of 2026 chair and vice chairAction
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“Representative. Congratulations and condolences.”
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Good morning, everyone. Committee and Legal Services will come to order on Thursday, January 22nd. Mr. Nearing, please start us off with a roll call. Representative Camacho. Here. Senator Carson. Present. Senator Frazelle. Present. Senator Gonzalez. Excused. Representative Hartsuk. Here. Representative Joseph. Here. Representative Walk. Excused. Representative Mabry. Here. Senator Roberts. Here. And Mr. Chair. Here. We have a quorum. We're advised there's an accident on 25 that may be impacting the travel timing of some members, but we thought we would get going. Just to note our agenda for the record, this is our organizational meeting, as required, early with the start of a regular session of the General Assembly. So we will be electing officers for the 2026 year. We will then consider some updates to our rules and have an update on litigation. And then Director Tacheco has some notes for us concerning our outside counsel roster, and we just need to take care of scheduling. But to the first item, everyone should have a memo just briefly reminding us of the procedures for election of officers. Ms. Chase, I wasn't sure if you wanted to add anything about this or maybe just take questions, if members…
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