By Cuellar of Webb H.B. No. 1247 74R4706 NSC-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the appointment of counsel to represent indigent 1-3 defendants or inmates. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Chapter 26, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-6 amended by adding Article 26.061 to read as follows: 1-7 Art. 26.061. ATTORNEYS EMPLOYED BY STATE OR POLITICAL 1-8 SUBDIVISION. A court may not appoint an attorney who is a 1-9 full-time employee of the state or a political subdivision of the 1-10 state, other than a public defender, to represent an indigent 1-11 defendant or inmate under this chapter. 1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.