88R20656 EAS-F
 
  By: Spiller, et al. H.B. No. 1130
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to a district or county attorney participating as counsel
  in certain proceedings.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Article 2.08(a), Code of Criminal Procedure, is
  amended to read as follows:
         (a)  District and county attorneys shall not be of counsel
  adversely to the State in any case, in any court, except as an
  attorney ad litem appointed under Chapter 262, Family Code, nor
  shall they, after they cease to be district or county attorneys 
  [such officers], be of counsel adversely to the State in any case in
  which they have been of counsel for the State.
         SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies only
  to the prosecution of an offense committed on or after the effective
  date of this Act.  The prosecution of an offense committed before
  the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on
  the date the offense was committed, and the former law is continued
  in effect for that purpose.  For purposes of this section, an
  offense was committed before the effective date of this Act if any
  element of the offense occurred before that date.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.