1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the powers and duties of the district attorney for the
1-3 105th Judicial District.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 43.148, Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 43.148. 105TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. (a) The voters of
1-8 the 105th Judicial District elect a district attorney. The
1-9 district attorney has the same powers and duties as other district
1-10 attorneys and serves all the district, county, and justice courts
1-11 of Nueces County and the district courts of[,] Kleberg[,] and
1-12 Kenedy counties.
1-13 (b) The district attorney shall attend each term and session
1-14 of the district, county, and justice courts of Nueces County and
1-15 the district courts of Kleberg and Kenedy counties and shall
1-16 represent the state in criminal cases pending in those courts. The
1-17 district attorney has control of any case heard on petition of writ
1-18 of habeas corpus before any district or inferior court in the
1-19 district.
1-20 (c) The commissioners courts of the counties comprising the
1-21 district may supplement the state salary of the district attorney.
1-22 The amount of the supplement may not exceed $12,000 a year. The
1-23 supplemental salary must be paid proportionately by the
1-24 commissioners court of each county according to the population of
2-1 the county. The supplemental salary may be paid from the officers'
2-2 salary fund of a county. If that fund is inadequate, the
2-3 commissioners court may transfer the necessary funds from the
2-4 general fund of the county.
2-5 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-6 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3779 was passed by the House on April
30, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3779 was passed by the Senate on May
17, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor