By Hirschi H.B. No. 2289
74R3359 DD-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the representation of certain indigent persons by
1-3 public defenders in Wichita County.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Article 26.043(g), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 (g) The public defender or an assistant public defender may
1-8 <shall> represent each indigent person in Wichita County who is:
1-9 (1) charged with a criminal offense in the county;
1-10 <Wichita County and>
1-11 (2) a <each indigent> minor who is a party to a
1-12 juvenile delinquency proceeding in the county; or
1-13 (3) entitled to representation under:
1-14 (A) Chapter 462, Health and Safety Code;
1-15 (B) Subtitle C, Title 7, Health and Safety Code;
1-16 or
1-17 (C) Subtitle D, Title 7, Health and Safety Code.
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.