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.

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