| 1 | 1 | | By: West S.B. No. 2330 |
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| 4 | 4 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 5 | 5 | | AN ACT |
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| 6 | 6 | | relating to maintaining county funding levels provided to the |
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| 7 | 7 | | offices of certain prosecutors. |
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| 8 | 8 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 9 | 9 | | SECTION 1. Section 46.006(b), Government Code, is amended |
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| 10 | 10 | | to read as follows: |
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| 11 | 11 | | (b) The commissioners court in each county that has a |
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| 12 | 12 | | prosecutor subject to this chapter and that has a population of over |
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| 13 | 13 | | two million persons may not reduce the county funds provided for the |
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| 14 | 14 | | salary or office of the prosecutor [as a result of the funds |
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| 15 | 15 | | provided by this chapter] below the amount provided for that salary |
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| 16 | 16 | | or office in the county budget for the previous year, except as |
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| 17 | 17 | | authorized by a majority of the qualified voters of the county |
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| 18 | 18 | | voting on the question in a referendum held by the county as |
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| 19 | 19 | | provided by this section and other applicable law. |
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| 20 | 20 | | SECTION 2. Section 46.006, Government Code, is amended by |
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| 21 | 21 | | adding new subsections (c), (d) to read as follows: |
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| 22 | 22 | | (c) In a referendum required by this section, the ballot |
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| 23 | 23 | | shall be printed to provide for voting for or against the |
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| 24 | 24 | | proposition, as appropriate: |
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| 25 | 25 | | (1) "Reduction of county funds for the office of |
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| 26 | 26 | | district attorney"; |
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| 27 | 27 | | (2) "Reduction of county funds for the office of |
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| 28 | 28 | | county attorney"; or |
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| 29 | 29 | | (3) "Reduction of county funds for the office of |
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| 30 | 30 | | criminal district attorney". |
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| 31 | 31 | | (d) A referendum under this section must be held on an |
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| 32 | 32 | | authorized uniform election date as provided by Chapter 41, |
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| 33 | 33 | | Election Code. |
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| 34 | 34 | | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 35 | 35 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 36 | 36 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 37 | 37 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 38 | 38 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2009. |
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