By Haywood S.B. No. 106 75R1566 MLS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the reimbursement to Wilbarger County for use of the 1-3 district attorney's office to prosecute mental health matters 1-4 involving persons residing outside the county. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 43.126, Government Code, is amended to 1-7 read as follows: 1-8 Sec. 43.126. 46TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. (a) The voters of the 1-9 46th Judicial District elect a district attorney. 1-10 (b) The district attorney is entitled to a fee for the 1-11 prosecution of cases arising under Chapter 574, Health and Safety 1-12 Code, in which the patient or proposed patient is a resident of a 1-13 county other than Wilbarger County. The fee is equal to the fee 1-14 paid to a court-appointed attorney to represent the patient or 1-15 proposed patient at each hearing. The fee shall be taxed as costs 1-16 and paid from the general fund of the county of residence of the 1-17 patient or proposed patient. Wilbarger County shall deposit the 1-18 fees collected under this section in the county fund from which the 1-19 salaries of employees of the district attorney are paid or 1-20 supplemented. 1-21 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-22 applies only to hearings held on or after that date. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.