By:  Duncan                                            S.B. No. 580

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to application of the professional prosecutors law to the

 1-2     county attorney of Crosby County.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 46.002, Government Code, is amended to

 1-5     read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 46.002.  PROSECUTORS SUBJECT TO CHAPTER.  This chapter

 1-7     applies only to the following prosecutors:

 1-8                 (1)  the district attorneys for the 2nd, 8th, 9th,

 1-9     12th, 18th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 26th, 27th, 29th, 34th, 35th,

1-10     36th, 38th, 43rd, 47th, 49th, 51st, 52nd, 53rd, 63rd, 64th, 66th,

1-11     69th, 70th, 76th, 81st, 84th, 85th, 90th, 97th, 105th, 106th,

1-12     110th, 118th, 119th, 123rd, 142nd, 145th, 156th, 159th, 173rd,

1-13     196th, 198th, 216th, 220th, 229th, 235th, 253rd, 259th, 266th,

1-14     268th, 271st, 278th, 286th, 329th, 349th, and 355th judicial

1-15     districts;

1-16                 (2)  the criminal district attorneys for the counties

1-17     of Anderson, Austin, Bastrop, Bexar, Bowie, Brazoria, Caldwell,

1-18     Calhoun, Cass, Deaf Smith, Denton, Eastland, Galveston, Gregg,

1-19     Harrison, Hays, Hidalgo, Jasper, Jefferson, Kaufman, Lubbock,

1-20     McLennan, Navarro, Panola, Polk, Randall, Rockwall, San Jacinto,

1-21     Smith, Tarrant, Taylor, Tyler, Upshur, Van Zandt, Victoria, Walker,

1-22     Waller, Wichita, Wood, and Yoakum; and

1-23                 (3)  the county attorneys performing the duties of

 2-1     district attorneys in the counties of Andrews, Callahan, Cameron,

 2-2     Castro, Crosby, Ellis, Falls, Fannin, Freestone, Grayson, Lamar,

 2-3     Lamb, Lampasas, Lee, Limestone, Marion, Milam, Morris, Ochiltree,

 2-4     Orange, Red River, Robertson, Rusk, Terry, Webb, and Willacy.

 2-5           SECTION 2.  Section 45.154, Government Code, is amended to

 2-6     read as follows:

 2-7           Sec. 45.154.  CROSBY COUNTY.  [(a)]  The county attorney of

 2-8     Crosby County, who performs the duties of a district attorney, is

 2-9     entitled to be compensated by the state in the manner and amount

2-10     fixed by general law relating to the salary paid to district

2-11     attorneys by the state.

2-12           [(b)  The commissioners court may pay the county attorney the

2-13     compensation it considers advisable and shall pay the county

2-14     attorney sufficient compensation to ensure that the total

2-15     compensation of the county attorney is not less than the total

2-16     compensation received by the county attorney on September 1, 1983.]

2-17           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

2-18           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

2-19     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

2-20     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

2-21     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

2-22     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.