1-1  By:  Hirschi (Senate Sponsor - Haywood)               H.B. No. 2289
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1995;
    1-3  May 9, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
    1-4  Justice; May 17, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 17, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6  COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                             By:  Moncrief
    1-7  Amend House Bill 2289 by striking Section 1 and replacing it with
    1-8  the following:
    1-9        SECTION 1.  Article 26.043(g), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
   1-10  amended to read as follows:
   1-11        (g)  The public defender or an assistant public defender
   1-12              (1)  shall represent each indigent person in Wichita
   1-13  County who is:
   1-14                    (a)  charged with a criminal offense in the
   1-15  county; or <Wichita County and>
   1-16                    (b)  a <each indigent> minor who is a party to a
   1-17  juvenile delinquency proceeding in the county; and
   1-18              (2)  may represent each indigent person in Wichita
   1-19  County who is entitled to representation under:
   1-20                    (a)  Chapter 462, Health and Safety Code;
   1-21                    (b)  Subtitle C, Title 7, Health and Safety Code;
   1-22  or
   1-23                    (c)  Subtitle D, Title 7, Health and Safety Code.
   1-24                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-25                                AN ACT
   1-26  relating to the representation of certain indigent persons by
   1-27  public defenders in Wichita County.
   1-28        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-29        SECTION 1.  Article 26.043(g), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
   1-30  amended to read as follows:
   1-31        (g)  The public defender or an assistant public defender may
   1-32  <shall> represent each indigent person in Wichita County who is:
   1-33              (1)  charged with a criminal offense in the county;
   1-34  <Wichita County and>
   1-35              (2)  a <each indigent> minor who is a party to a
   1-36  juvenile delinquency proceeding in the county; or
   1-37              (3)  entitled to representation under:
   1-38                    (A)  Chapter 462, Health and Safety Code;
   1-39                    (B)  Subtitle C, Title 7, Health and Safety Code;
   1-40  or
   1-41                    (C)  Subtitle D, Title 7, Health and Safety Code.
   1-42        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-43        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-44  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-45  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-46  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-47  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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