1-1 By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 401 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 30, 1997; February 4, 1997, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; 1-4 February 19, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; 1-6 February 19, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 401 By: Luna 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the duties of the district attorney for the 156th 1-11 Judicial District. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Section 43.161, Government Code, is amended to 1-14 read as follows: 1-15 Sec. 43.161. 156TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. (a) The voters of 1-16 Bee, Live Oak, and McMullen counties elect a district attorney for 1-17 the 156th Judicial District who represents the state in that 1-18 district court only in those counties. In addition to exercising 1-19 the duties and authority conferred on district attorneys by general 1-20 law, the district attorney shall also represent the state in all 1-21 criminal cases in the district courts in those counties. 1-22 (b) If there is no county attorney in McMullen County, the 1-23 district attorney may perform the duties of the county attorney in 1-24 McMullen County. 1-25 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-30 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-31 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-32 * * * * *