By Harris                                             S.B. No. 1840

         Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1840:

         By Thompson                                       C.S.S.B. No. 1840

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to prohibiting certain prosecuting attorneys from running

 1-3     for an elected judicial office.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 43, Government Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Section 43.005 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 43.005.  PROHIBITION ON RUNNING FOR ELECTED JUDICIAL

 1-8     OFFICE.  (a)  All assistant prosecuting attorneys, investigators,

 1-9     secretaries, and other office personnel employed by a district or

1-10     county attorney's office are prohibited from running for an elected

1-11     judicial office while maintaining employment with the district or

1-12     county attorney's office.

1-13           (b)  A district or county attorney may grant a leave of

1-14     absence to an assistant district or county attorney or an employee

1-15     of the district or county attorney's office for the purpose of

1-16     running for an elected judicial office.

1-17           SECTION 2.  Chapter 180, Local Government Code, is amended by

1-18     adding Section 180.004 to read as follows:

1-19           Sec. 180.004.  CERTAIN MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES PROHIBITED FROM

1-20     RUNNING FOR ELECTED JUDICIAL OFFICE.  (a)  All paid employees of a

1-21     city attorney's office are prohibited from running for an elected

1-22     judicial office while maintaining employment with the city

1-23     attorney's office.

1-24           (b)  The governing body of a city may grant a leave of

 2-1     absence to an employee of the city attorney's office for the

 2-2     purpose of running for an elected judicial office.

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

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

 2-5     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

 2-6     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

 2-7     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-8     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.