83R8224 YDB-D
By: Carter H.B. No. 1847
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to continuing legal education in ethics or professional
responsibility for prosecutors.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 81.113, Government Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (d) and (e) to read as follows:
(d) Of the state bar's minimum continuing legal education
requirements on legal ethics or professional responsibility for a
reporting year, each county attorney or district attorney that
represents this state in criminal cases must complete at least one
hour on ethics related to the attorney's duties as a prosecutor,
including prosecutorial misconduct.
(e) A county attorney or district attorney must complete the
continuing legal education required under Subsection (d) not later
than the 180th day after the date the person initially assumes the
person's duties as county attorney or district attorney.
SECTION 2. A person serving as a county attorney or district
attorney on the effective date of this Act that is subject to
Section 81.113(d), Government Code, as added by this Act, must
comply with the continuing legal education requirements of that
section not later than March 1, 2014.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.