By:  Wentworth, Madla                                 S.B. No. 1708
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the responsibilities of the district attorney for the
    1-2  38th Judicial District.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 43.123, Government Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 43.123.  38TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.  (a)  The voters of the
    1-7  38th Judicial District elect a district attorney.
    1-8        (b)  The district attorney also represents the state in all
    1-9  criminal cases and in all juvenile matters under Title 3, Family
   1-10  Code, in the county court at law, county court, and the justice of
   1-11  the peace courts in Medina County.
   1-12        (c)  The Commissioners Court of Medina County may provide
   1-13  funding to the district attorney for the prosecution of misdemeanor
   1-14  and juvenile cases and may determine the amount and the manner of
   1-15  payment of the funding provided to the district attorney under this
   1-16  section.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.