By Smithee                                            H.B. No. 3801
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the duties and salary of the county attorney in Oldham
 1-3     County.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 45.280, Government Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 45.280.  OLDHAM COUNTY.  (a)  The county attorney in
 1-8     Oldham County shall represent the state in all matters pending
 1-9     before the district court in Oldham County.
1-10           (b)  The county attorney in Oldham County is entitled to be
1-11     compensated by the state in the manner and amount provided by
1-12     general law relating to the salary paid to district attorneys by
1-13     the state.  Oldham County shall pay $28,500 of the county
1-14     attorney's total salary, and the state shall pay the remainder of
1-15     the salary.
1-16           (c)  The county attorney in Oldham County is entitled to
1-17     receive from the state the amount provided in the General
1-18     Appropriations Act for the  payment of staff salaries and office
1-19     expenses in single-county districts.
1-20           (d)  If there is no county attorney in Oldham County, the
1-21     criminal district attorney of Deaf Smith County shall represent the
1-22     state in all  matters pending before the district court in Oldham
1-23     County on appointment by the judge of the district court in Oldham
1-24     County.
 2-1           [(b) Oldham County is entitled to receive an amount from the
 2-2     state equal to 30 percent of the salary paid to a district attorney
 2-3     by the state.]
 2-4           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-5           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.