By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 401 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the duties of the district attorney for the 156th 1-2 Judicial District. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 43.161, Government Code, is amended to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 43.161. 156TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. (a) The voters of 1-7 Bee, Live Oak, and McMullen counties elect a district attorney for 1-8 the 156th Judicial District who represents the state in that 1-9 district court only in those counties. In addition to exercising 1-10 the duties and authority conferred on district attorneys by general 1-11 law, the district attorney shall also represent the state in all 1-12 criminal cases in the district courts in those counties. 1-13 (b) If there is no county attorney in McMullen County, the 1-14 district attorney may perform the duties of the county attorney in 1-15 McMullen County. 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.