1-1     By:  Bivins                                           S.B. No. 1839
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 25, 1999; March 29, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; April 15, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 15, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the duties and salary of the county attorney in Oldham
 1-9     County.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 45.280, Government Code, is amended to
1-12     read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 45.280.  OLDHAM COUNTY.  (a)  The county attorney in
1-14     Oldham County shall represent the state in all matters pending
1-15     before the district court in Oldham County.
1-16           (b)  The county attorney in Oldham County is entitled to be
1-17     compensated by the state in the manner and amount provided by
1-18     general law relating to the salary paid to district attorneys by
1-19     the state.  Oldham County shall pay $28,500 of the county
1-20     attorney's total salary, and the state shall pay the remainder of
1-21     the salary.
1-22           (c)  If there is no county attorney in Oldham County, the
1-23     criminal district attorney of Deaf Smith County shall represent the
1-24     state in all matters pending before the district court in Oldham
1-25     County on appointment by the judge of the district court in Oldham
1-26     County.
1-27           [(b) Oldham County is entitled to receive an amount from the
1-28     state equal to 30 percent of the salary paid to a district attorney
1-29     by the state.]
1-30           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-31           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-32     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-33     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-34     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-35     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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