1-1     By:  McReynolds (Senate Sponsor - Nixon)               H.B. No. 524
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999;
 1-3     May 6, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Jurisprudence; May 13, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 13, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the application of the professional prosecutors law to
 1-9     the district attorney of the 1st Judicial District.
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 1st, 2nd, 8th, 9th,
1-16     12th, 18th, 21st, 23rd, 26th, 27th, 29th, 32nd, 34th, 35th, 36th,
1-17     38th, 43rd, 47th,  49th, 50th, 51st, 52nd, 53rd, 63rd, 64th, 66th,
1-18     69th, 70th, 76th, 81st, 84th, 85th, 88th, 90th, 97th, 100th, 105th,
1-19     106th, 110th, 118th, 119th, 123rd, 142nd, 145th, 156th, 159th,
1-20     173rd, 196th, 198th, 216th, 220th, 229th, 235th, 253rd, 259th,
1-21     266th, 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, Collin, Comal, Deaf Smith, Denton, Eastland,
1-26     Galveston, Gregg, Harrison, Hays, Hidalgo, Jasper, Jefferson,
1-27     Kaufman, Lubbock, McLennan, Madison, Navarro, Newton, Panola, Polk,
1-28     Randall, Rockwall, San Jacinto, Smith, Tarrant, Taylor, Tyler,
1-29     Upshur, Van Zandt, Victoria, Walker, Waller, Wichita, Wood, and
1-30     Yoakum; and
1-31                 (3)  the county attorneys performing the duties of
1-32     district attorneys in the counties of Andrews, Callahan, Cameron,
1-33     Castro, Colorado, Crosby, Ellis, Falls, Fannin, Freestone, Grayson,
1-34     Lamar, Lamb, Lampasas, Lee, Limestone, Marion, Milam, Morris,
1-35     Ochiltree, Orange, Red River, Robertson, Rusk, Terry, Webb, and
1-36     Willacy.
1-37           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-38           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-39     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-40     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-41     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-42     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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