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By Smithee H.B. No. 3389
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the duties and salary of the Oldham County Attorney.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 45.280, Government Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 46.280. Oldham County. (a) If there is no county
1-7 attorney in Oldham County, the criminal district attorney of Deaf
1-8 Smith County shall represent the state in all matters pending
1-9 before the district court in Oldham County on appointment by the
1-10 judge of the district court in Oldham County.
1-11 (b) [Oldham County is entitled to receive an amount from the
1-12 state equal to 30 percent of the salary paid to a district attorney
1-13 by the state]. The county attorney of Oldham County shall represent
1-14 the state before the district court of Oldham County (the 222nd
1-15 Judicial District Court) and is entitled to be compensated in the
1-16 same manner and amount as provided by general law for district
1-17 attorneys. the expense of such compensation shall be borne jointly
1-18 by Oldham county and the state. Oldham County shall pay the
1-19 $28,500 of said total salary, and the state shall pay the balance.
1-20 (c) The county attorney of Oldham County is entitled to
1-21 receive from the state an amount for the payment of staff salaries
1-22 and office expenses equal to the amount provided in the General
1-23 Appropriations Act to be paid for those purposes to a district
1-24 attorney who serves a single county.
2-1 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.