By Chisum H.B. No. 3120
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the duties and salary of the Carson County Attorney.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 43.147, Subchapter A, Chapter 43,
1-5 Government Code, is amended to read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 43.147. 100th Judicial District. The voters of
1-7 Childress, Collingsworth, Donley, and Hall counties elect a
1-8 district attorney for the 100th Judicial District. Except as
1-9 provided in Sec. 45.133(c), the district attorney in the 100th
1-10 Judicial District represents the state in the district court only
1-11 in Childress, Collingsworth, Donley, and Hall counties [the 100th
1-12 Judicial District elect a district attorney].
1-13 SECTION 2. Subchapter A, Chapter 45, Government Code, is
1-14 amended by adding Section 45.133 to read as follows:
1-15 Sec. 45.133. CARSON COUNTY. (a) The county attorney of
1-16 Carson County shall represent the state before the district court
1-17 in Carson County and is entitled to be compensated in the same
1-18 manner and amount as provided by general law for district
1-19 attorneys. The expense of such compensation shall be borne jointly
1-20 by Carson County and the state. Carson County shall pay $28,500 of
1-21 the total salary of the county attorney and the state shall pay the
2-1 balance.
2-2 (b) The county attorney of Carson County is entitled to
2-3 receive from the state an amount for the payment of staff salaries
2-4 and office expenses as provided in the General Appropriations Act
2-5 for a district attorney who serves a single county.
2-6 (c) If there is no county attorney in Carson County, the
2-7 district attorney of the 100th Judicial District shall represent
2-8 the state in all matters pending before the district court in
2-9 Carson County on appointment by the judge of the district court in
2-10 Carson County.
2-11 SECTION 2. 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,
2-16 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-17 passage, and it is so enacted.