By: Bivins S.B. No. 1839
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the duties and salary of the county attorney in Oldham
1-2 County.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 45.280, Government Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 45.280. OLDHAM COUNTY. (a) The county attorney in
1-7 Oldham County shall represent the state in all matters pending
1-8 before the district court in Oldham County.
1-9 (b) The county attorney in Oldham County is entitled to be
1-10 compensated by the state in the manner and amount provided by
1-11 general law relating to the salary paid to district attorneys by
1-12 the state. Oldham County shall pay $28,500 of the county
1-13 attorney's total salary, and the state shall pay the remainder of
1-14 the salary.
1-15 (c) If there is no county attorney in Oldham County, the
1-16 criminal district attorney of Deaf Smith County shall represent the
1-17 state in all matters pending before the district court in Oldham
1-18 County on appointment by the judge of the district court in Oldham
1-19 County.
1-20 [(b) Oldham County is entitled to receive an amount from the
1-21 state equal to 30 percent of the salary paid to a district attorney
1-22 by the state.]
1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.