TEXAS ETHICS COMMISSION
The Texas Ethics Commission is authorized by Government Code, sec.571.091, to 
issue advisory opinions in regard to the following statutes: the Government 
Code, Chapter 302; the Government Code, Chapter 305; the Government Code, 
Chapter 572; the Election Code, Title 15; the Penal Code, Chapter 36; and the 
Penal Code, Chapter 39.
Requests for copies of the full text of opinions or questions on particular 
submissions should be addressed to the Office of the Texas Ethics Commission, 
P.O. Box 12070, Austin, Texas 78711-2070, (512) 463-5800.

Advisory Opinion Requests
AOR-358. The Texas Ethics Commission has been asked to consider the following 
question: Can a sitting Judge solicit campaign funds from attorneys and the 
general public using letterhead that shows her current judicial position and
Court, if the letter contains a notation indicating that it was not printed at 
county expense and noting that it was "Political Advertising Paid For By the 
Judge [Smith] Election Committee...?"
AOR-359. The Texas Ethics Commission has been asked to consider whether a former 
employee of the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission may work on the 
certification of a groundwater monitoring system when that employee reviewed and 
approved or supervised the review and approval of the same ground water 
monitoring system while employed by the agency.
AOR-360. The Texas Ethics Commission has been asked to consider whether the 
requirement to file personal financial statements under the Government Code, 
Chapter 572 applies to the deans of the following institutions:
(1) the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio;
(2) the U.T. Dental School at San Antonio;
(3) the U.T. Dental Branch at Houston;
(4) the U.T. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston;
(5) the U.T. Medical School at Houston; and
(6) the U.T. School of Public Health at Houston.
Issued in Austin, Texas, on April, 8, 1996.
TRD-9605031
Tom Harrison
Executive Director
Texas Ethics Commission
Filed: April 10, 1996