Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether the nepotism statutes prohibit a member of one house of the Legislature from employing a person of his staff who is not related to him but is related within the second degree of affinity or the third degree of consanguinity to a member of the other house of the Legislature, and a related question.