SRC-VRA, S.B. 88 78(R)   BILL ANALYSIS


Senate Research Center   S.B. 88
78R990 SLO-DBy: Wentworth
Jurisprudence
2/3/2003
As Filed


DIGEST AND PURPOSE 


Currently, a district attorney may maintain an independent law practice to
supplement his or her pay unless that office is listed in the Professional
Prosecutors Act, which provides additional state funding to supplement a
prosecutor's salary in exchange for prohibiting the prosecutor from the
private practice of law.   As proposed, S.B. 88 adds the district attorney
for the 25th judicial district to the list of prosecutors who are subject
to the professional prosecutors law. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

This bill does not expressly grant any additional rulemaking authority to
a state officer, institution, or agency. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 46.002, Government Code, by including the
district attorney of the 25th judicial district in the list of state
prosecutors to whom the professional prosecutors law applies. 

Section 2.  Effective date: January 1, 2005.