H.B. No. 2289
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:
1-8 (1) shall represent each indigent person in Wichita
1-9 County who is:
1-10 (A) charged with a criminal offense in the
1-11 county; or <Wichita County and>
1-12 (B) a <each indigent> minor who is a party to a
1-13 juvenile delinquency proceeding in the county; and
1-14 (2) may represent each indigent person in Wichita
1-15 County who is entitled to representation under:
1-16 (A) Chapter 462, Health and Safety Code;
1-17 (B) Subtitle C, Title 7, Health and Safety Code;
1-18 or
1-19 (C) Subtitle D, Title 7, Health and Safety Code.
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.