1-1     By:  Harris                                           S.B. No. 1840

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 14, 1997; March 24, 1997, read

 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs; May 5, 1997,

 1-4     rereferred to Committee on Jurisprudence; May 13, 1997, reported

 1-5     adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following

 1-6     vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 13, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-7     COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1840                  By:  Harris

 1-8                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-9                                   AN ACT

1-10     relating to prohibiting certain prosecuting attorneys from running

1-11     for an elected judicial office.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 43, Government Code, is

1-14     amended by adding Section 43.005 to read as follows:

1-15           Sec. 43.005.  PROHIBITION ON RUNNING FOR ELECTED JUDICIAL

1-16     OFFICE IN CERTAIN COUNTIES.  (a)  Except as provided by Subsection

1-17     (b), a district attorney or an assistant district attorney serving

1-18     in a county with a population of more than one million in which the

1-19     principal municipality has a population of less than 900,000 is

1-20     prohibited from running for an elected judicial office while

1-21     serving as district attorney or assistant district attorney.

1-22           (b)  A district attorney may grant a leave of absence to an

1-23     assistant district attorney for the purpose of running for an

1-24     elected judicial office.

1-25           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-26           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-27     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-28     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-29     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-30     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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