By Duncan S.B. No. 1437 76R8990 RJA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the powers and duties of the district attorney of the 1-3 64th Judicial District. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 43.134(b), Government Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (b) The district attorney also represents the state in all 1-8 criminal cases before the county court and the justice courts in 1-9 Hale County. The district attorney may delegate any of the 1-10 district attorney's powers and duties in Hale County imposed by 1-11 this subsecton to the county attorney of Hale County. 1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.