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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.