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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