1-1 By: Chisum (Senate Sponsor - Haywood) H.B. No. 3120
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999;
1-3 May 10, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by
1-5 the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to the duties and salary of the county attorney of Carson
1-10 County.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 43.147, Government Code, is amended to
1-13 read as follows:
1-14 Sec. 43.147. 100TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. The voters of
1-15 Childress, Collingsworth, Donley, and Hall counties [the 100th
1-16 Judicial District] elect a district attorney for the 100th Judicial
1-17 District. Except as provided by Section 45.133(c), the district
1-18 attorney for the 100th Judicial District represents the state in
1-19 the district court only in Childress, Collingsworth, Donley, and
1-20 Hall counties.
1-21 SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 45, Government Code, is
1-22 amended by adding Section 45.133 to read as follows:
1-23 Sec. 45.133. CARSON COUNTY. (a) The county attorney of
1-24 Carson County shall represent the state in all matters pending
1-25 before the 100th District Court in Carson County. The county
1-26 attorney is entitled to be compensated in the manner and amount
1-27 fixed by general law relating to the salary paid to district
1-28 attorneys by the state except that Carson County and the state
1-29 shall jointly bear the expense of the county attorney's salary.
1-30 Carson County shall pay $28,500 of the total salary of the county
1-31 attorney, and the state shall pay the balance.
1-32 (b) The county attorney of Carson County is entitled to
1-33 receive funds from the state for the payment of staff salaries and
1-34 office expenses as provided in the General Appropriations Act for a
1-35 district attorney who serves a single-county district.
1-36 (c) If there is no county attorney in Carson County, the
1-37 district attorney of the 100th Judicial District, on appointment by
1-38 the judge of the 100th District Court, shall represent the state in
1-39 all matters pending before the 100th District Court in Carson
1-40 County.
1-41 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-42 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-43 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-44 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-45 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-46 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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