1-1     By:  Luna, Seaman, Capelo (Senate Sponsor - Truan)    H.B. No. 3779
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1999;
 1-3     May 3, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Jurisprudence; May 11, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 11, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the powers and duties of the district attorney for the
 1-9     105th Judicial District.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 43.148, Government Code, is amended to
1-12     read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 43.148.  105TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.  (a)  The voters of
1-14     the 105th Judicial District elect a district attorney.  The
1-15     district attorney has the same powers and duties as other district
1-16     attorneys and serves all the district, county, and justice courts
1-17     of Nueces County and the district courts of[,] Kleberg[,] and
1-18     Kenedy counties.
1-19           (b)  The district attorney shall attend each term and session
1-20     of the district, county, and justice courts of Nueces County and
1-21     the district courts of Kleberg and Kenedy counties and shall
1-22     represent the state in criminal cases pending in those courts.  The
1-23     district attorney has control of any case heard on petition of writ
1-24     of habeas corpus before any district or inferior court in the
1-25     district.
1-26           (c)  The commissioners courts of the counties comprising the
1-27     district may supplement the state salary of the district attorney.
1-28     The amount of the supplement may not exceed $12,000 a year.  The
1-29     supplemental salary must be paid proportionately by the
1-30     commissioners court of each county according to the population of
1-31     the county.  The supplemental salary may be paid from the officers'
1-32     salary fund of a county.  If that fund is inadequate, the
1-33     commissioners court may transfer the necessary funds from the
1-34     general fund of the county.
1-35           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-36           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-37     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-38     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-39     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-40     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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