PRESS CLIPS 718 WEST 5th ST. AUSTIN, TEXAS 78701 479‘.675• News Snyder, Texas FEB 2 9 rq0 No Special Session Of Legislature AUSTIN (AP)-Gov. Bill Clements said today there definitely will not be a special legislative session in August because of Speaker Bill Clayton's in- volvement in an FBI sting investigation. The governor has said previously he was consid- ering doing away with plans for the session where he planned to sub- mit legislation for initia- tive and referendum, wire-tapping in drug con- trol and tax relief. "I will not call a special session." he told a news conference. "The counsel and advice I have received is that it would be ill-advised to have such a session. I am disappointed but I also agree that it is correct because of the special circumstances of Speaker Clayton's problems." Clayton is scheduled to appear before a Houston federal grand jury the latter part of March con- cerning his acknowledge- ment that he accepted $5,000 from two men after talking with them about an insurance contract cover- ing state employees. Clements said he would work "as hard as I know how" to get legislation on initiative and referendum and on wiretapping in drug control passed during the 1981 regular legislative session. He said he also expected up to $1 billion to be available for return to voters in the form of tax relief. He has said previously he expected $700 to $800 million available for tax relief by the planned August session. "Now that the comptrol- ler has raised his esti- mates of state revenue from the state sales tax, I think I'll go back to my $1 billion figure for tax relief," he said. Clements said comptrol- ler's reports show sales tax revenues through Jan- uary of this year total $828.8 million, an increase of $16.5 million over a year ago.