By Luna                                               H.B. No. 3779
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the duties and responsibilities of the District
 1-3     Attorney for the 105th Judicial District and the County Attorney of
 1-4     Nueces County.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 43.148, Government Code, is amended to
 1-7     read as follows:
 1-8           Section 43.148.  105th Judicial District.  (a)  The voters of
 1-9     the 105th Judicial District elect a district attorney.  The
1-10     district attorney has the same powers and duties as other district
1-11     attorneys and serves all the district and county courts of Nueces,
1-12     Kleberg, and Kenedy counties.
1-13           (b)  The district attorney shall attend each term and session
1-14     of the district and county courts of Nueces County and the district
1-15     court of Kleberg and Kenedy counties.  The district attorney shall
1-16     represent the state in criminal cases pending in the district and
1-17     county courts of Nueces County, and the district court of Kleberg
1-18     and Kenedy counties.  The district attorney has control of any case
1-19     heard on petition of writ of habeas corpus before any civil or
1-20     criminal court in the district.
1-21           (c)  The commissioners courts of the counties comprising the
 2-1     district may supplement the state salary of the district attorney.
 2-2     The amount of the supplement may not exceed $12,000.00 a year.  The
 2-3     supplemental salary must be paid proportionately by the
 2-4     commissioners court of each county according to the population of
 2-5     the county.  The supplemental salary may be paid from the officers'
 2-6     salary fund of the county.  If that fund is inadequate, the
 2-7     commissioners court may transfer the necessary funds from the
 2-8     general fund of the county.
 2-9           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-10     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-11     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-12     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-13     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.