1-1  By:  Gallego (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini)              H.B. No. 424
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House March 2, 1993;
    1-3  March 3, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Jurisprudence; March 30, 1993, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; March 30, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Henderson          x                               
    1-9        Harris of Tarrant  x                               
   1-10        Brown              x                               
   1-11        Harris of Dallas                              x    
   1-12        Luna               x                               
   1-13        Parker                                        x    
   1-14        West                                          x    
   1-15                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-16                                AN ACT
   1-17  relating to the application of the professional prosecutors law to
   1-18  the district attorney of the 83rd Judicial District.
   1-19        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-20        SECTION 1.  Section 46.002, Government Code, is amended to
   1-21  read as follows:
   1-22        Sec. 46.002.  Prosecutors Subject to Chapter.  This chapter
   1-23  applies only to the following prosecutors:
   1-24              (1)  the district attorneys for the 2nd, 8th, 9th,
   1-25  12th, 21st, 22nd, 26th, 27th, 29th, 34th, 36th, 38th, 43rd, 47th,
   1-26  49th, 51st, 52nd, 63rd, 64th, 66th, 69th, 70th, 76th, 81st, <83rd,>
   1-27  84th, 85th, 90th, 97th, 105th, 106th, 110th, 118th, 119th, 123rd,
   1-28  142nd, 145th, 159th, 173rd, 196th, 198th, 216th, 220th, 229th,
   1-29  253rd, 266th, 268th, 271st, 286th, 349th, and 355th judicial
   1-30  districts;
   1-31              (2)  the criminal district attorneys for the counties
   1-32  of Anderson, Austin, Bastrop, Bexar, Bowie, Brazoria, Caldwell,
   1-33  Calhoun, Cass, Deaf Smith, Denton, Eastland, Galveston, Gregg,
   1-34  Harrison, Hays, Hidalgo, Jasper, Jefferson, Kaufman, Lubbock,
   1-35  McLennan, Navarro, Panola, Polk, Randall, Rockwall, San Jacinto,
   1-36  Smith, Tarrant, Taylor, Tyler, Upshur, Van Zandt, Victoria, Walker,
   1-37  Wichita, Wood, and Yoakum; and
   1-38              (3)  the county attorneys performing the duties of
   1-39  district attorneys in the counties of Andrews, Callahan, Cameron,
   1-40  Castro, Ellis, Falls, Fannin, Fayette, Freestone, Grayson, Lamar,
   1-41  Lamb, Lampasas, Limestone, Marion, Milam, Morris, Ochiltree,
   1-42  Orange, Red River, Robertson, Rusk, Terry, and Willacy.
   1-43        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-44        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-45  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-46  emergency   and   an   imperative   public   necessity   that   the
   1-47  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-48  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
   1-49                               * * * * *
   1-50                                                         Austin,
   1-51  Texas
   1-52                                                         March 30, 1993
   1-53  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-54  President of the Senate
   1-55  Sir:
   1-56  We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred H.B.
   1-57  No. 424, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
   1-58  to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
   1-59  pass and be printed.
   1-60                                                         Henderson,
   1-61  Chairman
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   1-63                               WITNESSES
   1-64  No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 424.