SRC-CDH S.B. 580 75(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 580
By: Duncan
Criminal Justice
5-21-97
As Filed


DIGEST 

Currently, the office of the county attorney for Crosby County is funded
outside of the Professional Prosecutors Act.  However, the county attorney
of Crosby County has the same felony responsibility as a district
attorney, who is entitled to funding outside of this Act.  S.B. 580
includes the county attorneys performing the duties of district attorneys
in Crosby County among those prosecutors entitled to funding outside of
the Act and deletes the provision regarding the commissioners court's
compensation of county attorneys in Crosby County. 

PURPOSE

As proposed, S.B. 580 establishes the application of the professional
prosecutors law to the county attorney of Crosby County. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not grant any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1. Amends Section 46.002, Government Code, to include the county
attorneys performing the duties of district attorneys in Crosby County
among those prosecutors to whom this chapter applies.   

SECTION 2. Amends Section 45.154, Government Code, to delete existing
Subsection (b), authorizing the commissioners court to pay the county
attorney the compensation it considers advisable, and requiring the court
to pay the county attorney certain sufficient compensation.  Makes a
conforming change. 

SECTION 3. Effective date:  September 1, 1997.

SECTION 4. Emergency clause.