By Wentworth                                          S.B. No. 1708
       74R12525 MWV-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the responsibilities of the district attorney for the
    1-3  38th Judicial District.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 43.123, Government Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 43.123.  38TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.  (a)  The voters of the
    1-8  38th Judicial District elect a district attorney.
    1-9        (b)  The district attorney also represents the state in all
   1-10  criminal cases and in all juvenile matters under Title 3, Family
   1-11  Code, in the county court at law, county court, and the justice of
   1-12  the peace courts in Medina County.
   1-13        (c)  The Commissioners Court of Medina County may provide
   1-14  funding to the district attorney for the prosecution of misdemeanor
   1-15  and juvenile cases and may determine the amount and the manner of
   1-16  payment of the funding provided to the district attorney under this
   1-17  section.
   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.