S.B. 88 78(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


S.B. 88
By: Wentworth
Judicial Affairs
Committee Report (Unamended)



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Under current law, district attorneys may maintain an independent law
practice to supplement their pay unless their office is listed in the
Professional Prosecutors Act, which provides additional state funding to
supplement existing salaries in exchange for prohibiting the prosecutor
from the private practice of law.   

S.B. 88 adds the district attorney for the 25th Judicial District to those
district attorneys subject to the professional prosecutors law. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the committee's opinion that this bill does not expressly grant any
additional rulemaking authority to a state officer, department, agency, or
institution. 

ANALYSIS

Senate Bill 88 amends the Government Code to add the district attorney
from the 25th Judicial District to the list of prosecutors who are subject
to the professional prosecutors law. 

EFFECTIVE DATE

January 1, 2005.