73R3846 RJA-D
          By Chisum                                              H.B. No. 753
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the duties of the district attorney for the 31st
    1-3  Judicial District.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 43.117, Government Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 43.117.  31st Judicial District.  <(a)>  The voters of
    1-8  the 31st Judicial District elect a district attorney.
    1-9        <(b)  The district attorney also represents the state in all
   1-10  criminal cases before the County Court of Roberts County.>
   1-11        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-16  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-17  passage, and it is so enacted.