76R12482 DB-F
By Chisum H.B. No. 3120
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3120:
By Thompson C.S.H.B. No. 3120
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the duties and salary of the county attorney of Carson
1-3 County.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 43.147, Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 43.147. 100TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. The voters of
1-8 Childress, Collingsworth, Donley, and Hall counties [the 100th
1-9 Judicial District] elect a district attorney for the 100th Judicial
1-10 District. Except as provided by Section 45.133(c), the district
1-11 attorney for the 100th Judicial District represents the state in
1-12 the district court only in Childress, Collingsworth, Donley, and
1-13 Hall counties.
1-14 SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 45, Government Code, is
1-15 amended by adding Section 45.133 to read as follows:
1-16 Sec. 45.133. CARSON COUNTY. (a) The county attorney of
1-17 Carson County shall represent the state in all matters pending
1-18 before the 100th District Court in Carson County. The county
1-19 attorney is entitled to be compensated in the manner and amount
1-20 fixed by general law relating to the salary paid to district
1-21 attorneys by the state except that Carson County and the state
1-22 shall jointly bear the expense of the county attorney's salary.
1-23 Carson County shall pay $28,500 of the total salary of the county
1-24 attorney, and the state shall pay the balance.
2-1 (b) The county attorney of Carson County is entitled to
2-2 receive funds from the state for the payment of staff salaries and
2-3 office expenses as provided in the General Appropriations Act for a
2-4 district attorney who serves a single-county district.
2-5 (c) If there is no county attorney in Carson County, the
2-6 district attorney of the 100th Judicial District, on appointment by
2-7 the judge of the 100th District Court, shall represent the state in
2-8 all matters pending before the 100th District Court in Carson
2-9 County.
2-10 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-11 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.