By:  Harris                                  S.B. No. 1840

         97S0603/2                           

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to prohibiting certain employees of a district, county, or

 1-2     city attorney's office from running for an elected judicial office.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subchapter B, Chapter 41, Government Code, is

 1-5     amended by adding Section 41.110 to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 41.110.  PROHIBITION ON RUNNING FOR ELECTED JUDICIAL

 1-7     OFFICE.  All assistant prosecuting attorneys, investigators,

 1-8     secretaries, and other office personnel employed by a district or

 1-9     county attorney's office are prohibited from running for an elected

1-10     judicial office while maintaining employment with the district or

1-11     county attorney's office.

1-12           SECTION 2.  Chapter 180, Local Government Code, is amended by

1-13     adding Section 180.004 to read as follows:

1-14           Sec. 180.004.  CERTAIN MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES PROHIBITED FROM

1-15     RUNNING FOR ELECTED JUDICIAL OFFICE.  All paid employees of a city

1-16     attorney's office are prohibited from running for an elected

1-17     judicial office while maintaining employment with the city

1-18     attorney's office.

1-19           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-20           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.