1-1     By:  Duncan                                            S.B. No. 580

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed February 12, 1997; February 18, 1997,

 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;

 1-4     March 19, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,

 1-5     Nays 0; March 19, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to application of the professional prosecutors law to the

 1-9     county attorney of Crosby County.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 46.002, Government Code, is amended to

1-12     read as follows:

1-13           Sec. 46.002.  PROSECUTORS SUBJECT TO CHAPTER.  This chapter

1-14     applies only to the following prosecutors:

1-15                 (1)  the district attorneys for the 2nd, 8th, 9th,

1-16     12th, 18th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 26th, 27th, 29th, 34th, 35th,

1-17     36th, 38th, 43rd, 47th, 49th, 51st, 52nd, 53rd, 63rd, 64th, 66th,

1-18     69th, 70th, 76th, 81st, 84th, 85th, 90th, 97th, 105th, 106th,

1-19     110th, 118th, 119th, 123rd, 142nd, 145th, 156th, 159th, 173rd,

1-20     196th, 198th, 216th, 220th, 229th, 235th, 253rd, 259th, 266th,

1-21     268th, 271st, 278th, 286th, 329th, 349th, and 355th judicial

1-22     districts;

1-23                 (2)  the criminal district attorneys for the counties

1-24     of Anderson, Austin, Bastrop, Bexar, Bowie, Brazoria, Caldwell,

1-25     Calhoun, Cass, Deaf Smith, Denton, Eastland, Galveston, Gregg,

1-26     Harrison, Hays, Hidalgo, Jasper, Jefferson, Kaufman, Lubbock,

1-27     McLennan, Navarro, Panola, Polk, Randall, Rockwall, San Jacinto,

1-28     Smith, Tarrant, Taylor, Tyler, Upshur, Van Zandt, Victoria, Walker,

1-29     Waller, Wichita, Wood, and Yoakum; and

1-30                 (3)  the county attorneys performing the duties of

1-31     district attorneys in the counties of Andrews, Callahan, Cameron,

1-32     Castro, Crosby, Ellis, Falls, Fannin, Freestone, Grayson, Lamar,

1-33     Lamb, Lampasas, Lee, Limestone, Marion, Milam, Morris, Ochiltree,

1-34     Orange, Red River, Robertson, Rusk, Terry, Webb, and Willacy.

1-35           SECTION 2.  Section 45.154, Government Code, is amended to

1-36     read as follows:

1-37           Sec. 45.154.  CROSBY COUNTY.  [(a)]  The county attorney of

1-38     Crosby County, who performs the duties of a district attorney, is

1-39     entitled to be compensated by the state in the manner and amount

1-40     fixed by general law relating to the salary paid to district

1-41     attorneys by the state.

1-42           [(b)  The commissioners court may pay the county attorney the

1-43     compensation it considers advisable and shall pay the county

1-44     attorney sufficient compensation to ensure that the total

1-45     compensation of the county attorney is not less than the total

1-46     compensation received by the county attorney on September 1, 1983.]

1-47           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-48           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-49     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-50     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-51     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-52     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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