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.