1-1  By:  Wentworth, Madla                                 S.B. No. 1708
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed May 4, 1995; May 5, 1995, read first
    1-3  time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice; May 11, 1995,
    1-4  reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0;
    1-5  May 11, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the responsibilities of the district attorney for the
    1-9  38th Judicial District.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 43.123, Government Code, is amended to
   1-12  read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 43.123.  38TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.  (a)  The voters of the
   1-14  38th Judicial District elect a district attorney.
   1-15        (b)  The district attorney also represents the state in all
   1-16  criminal cases and in all juvenile matters under Title 3, Family
   1-17  Code, in the county court at law, county court, and the justice of
   1-18  the peace courts in Medina County.
   1-19        (c)  The Commissioners Court of Medina County may provide
   1-20  funding to the district attorney for the prosecution of misdemeanor
   1-21  and juvenile cases and may determine the amount and the manner of
   1-22  payment of the funding provided to the district attorney under this
   1-23  section.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-25        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-26  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-27  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-28  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-29  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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