1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the application of the professional prosecutors law to
1-3 the district attorney for the 88th Judicial District.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 46.002, Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 46.002. PROSECUTORS SUBJECT TO CHAPTER. This chapter
1-8 applies only to the following prosecutors:
1-9 (1) the district attorneys for the 2nd, 8th, 9th,
1-10 12th, 18th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 26th, 27th, 29th, 34th, 35th,
1-11 36th, 38th, 43rd, 47th, 49th, 51st, 52nd, 53rd, 63rd, 64th, 66th,
1-12 69th, 70th, 76th, 81st, 84th, 85th, 88th, 90th, 97th, 105th, 106th,
1-13 110th, 118th, 119th, 123rd, 142nd, 145th, 156th, 159th, 173rd,
1-14 196th, 198th, 216th, 220th, 229th, 235th, 253rd, 259th, 266th,
1-15 268th, 271st, 278th, 286th, 329th, 349th, and 355th judicial
1-16 districts;
1-17 (2) the criminal district attorneys for the counties
1-18 of Anderson, Austin, Bastrop, Bexar, Bowie, Brazoria, Caldwell,
1-19 Calhoun, Cass, Deaf Smith, Denton, Eastland, Galveston, Gregg,
1-20 Harrison, Hays, Hidalgo, Jasper, Jefferson, Kaufman, Lubbock,
1-21 McLennan, Navarro, Panola, Polk, Randall, Rockwall, San Jacinto,
1-22 Smith, Tarrant, Taylor, Tyler, Upshur, Van Zandt, Victoria, Walker,
1-23 Waller, Wichita, Wood, and Yoakum; and
1-24 (3) the county attorneys performing the duties of
2-1 district attorneys in the counties of Andrews, Callahan, Cameron,
2-2 Castro, Ellis, Falls, Fannin, Freestone, Grayson, Lamar, Lamb,
2-3 Lampasas, Lee, Limestone, Marion, Milam, Morris, Ochiltree, Orange,
2-4 Red River, Robertson, Rusk, Terry, Webb, and Willacy.
2-5 SECTION 2. Section 43.144, Government Code, is amended as
2-6 follows:
2-7 Sec. 43.144. 88TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. [(a)] The voters of
2-8 Hardin County elect a district attorney for the 88th Judicial
2-9 District. The district attorney acts as district attorney in
2-10 Hardin County only.
2-11 [(b) The Commissioners Court of Hardin County may supplement
2-12 the state salary of the district attorney in the amount set by the
2-13 commissioners court, not to exceed $5,000 a year. The supplemental
2-14 salary shall be paid from the officers' salary fund of the county,
2-15 if adequate. If that fund is inadequate, the commissioners court
2-16 may transfer the necessary funds from the general fund of the
2-17 county.]
2-18 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-19 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 462 was passed by the House on May 2,
1997, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 462 was passed by the Senate on May
26, 1997, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor