By Coleman H.B. No. 2774 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the training, qualifications, and duties of attorneys 1-3 appointed to represent indigent defendants in criminal cases. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Article 26.04 of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1-6 is amended by adding subsection to read as follows: 1-7 (g) The presiding judge of each administrative judicial 1-8 region shall establish for court-appointed counsel in criminal 1-9 cases in that judicial district the following: 1-10 (1) minimum training and qualifications for 1-11 court-appointed counsel; and 1-12 (2) duties of court-appointed counsel with respect to 1-13 indigent clients 1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.