By Hawley                                             H.B. No. 1574
       74R5538 RJA-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to creation of the office of Refugio County district
    1-3  attorney.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 43, Government Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 43.182 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 43.182.  REFUGIO COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY.  (a)  The
    1-8  voters of Refugio County elect a district attorney.
    1-9        (b)  The district attorney shall attend each term and session
   1-10  of the district courts of Refugio County.  The district attorney
   1-11  shall represent the state in criminal cases pending in the district
   1-12  courts of the county.
   1-13        (c)  The district attorney has all the powers, duties, and
   1-14  privileges in Refugio County relating to criminal matters for and
   1-15  in behalf of the state that are conferred on district attorneys in
   1-16  the various counties and districts.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  Section 43.111, Government Code, is amended to
   1-18  read as follows:
   1-19        Sec. 43.111.  24th Judicial District.  (a)  The voters of
   1-20  DeWitt and<,> Goliad<, and Refugio> counties elect a district
   1-21  attorney for the 24th Judicial District who represents the state in
   1-22  that district court only in those counties.
   1-23        (b)  The district attorney also represents the state in all
   1-24  cases before the 135th Judicial District Court in DeWitt and<,>
    2-1  Goliad<, and Refugio> counties.
    2-2        (c)  The commissioners courts of DeWitt and<,> Goliad<, and
    2-3  Refugio> counties may supplement the state salary of the district
    2-4  attorney in the amount they consider proper.  The supplemental
    2-5  compensation must be paid in equal monthly installments in
    2-6  proportion to the population of those counties.
    2-7        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-8        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-9  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-10  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-11  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-12  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.