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.
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             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