By Cain                                                S.B. No. 849
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the responsibilities of the district attorney for the
 1-3     8th Judicial District and the county attorney of Rains County.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 43.104, Government Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 43.104.  8TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT.  [(a)] The voters of
 1-8     Delta, Franklin, and Hopkins counties elect a district attorney for
 1-9     the 8th  Judicial District who represents the state in that
1-10     district only in those counties [elect a district attorney].
1-11           SECTION 2.  Subchapter B, Chapter 45, Government Code, is
1-12     amended by adding Section 45.290 to read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 45.290.  RAINS COUNTY.  (a)  In Rains County, the county
1-14     attorney of Rains County shall perform the duties imposed on and
1-15     have the powers  conferred on district attorneys by general law.
1-16           (b)  The county attorney of Rains County is entitled to be
1-17     compensated by the state in the manner and amount set by general
1-18     law relating to the salary paid to district attorneys by the state.
1-19           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-20           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.