By: Bell, Bonnen of Galveston H.B. No. 480
(Senate Sponsor - Kolkhorst)
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 13, 2015;
May 14, 2015, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal
Justice; May 21, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 21, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to retaining a reserve investigator by a prosecuting
attorney.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 41.102(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) A prosecuting attorney may employ the assistant
prosecuting attorneys, investigators, secretaries, and other
office personnel that in the prosecuting attorney's [his] judgment
are required for the proper and efficient operation and
administration of the office. The commissioners court may
authorize a prosecuting attorney to appoint reserve investigators.
The commissioners court may limit the number of reserve
investigators that a prosecuting attorney may appoint. A reserve
investigator may accept other employment or compensation that does
not impair the reserve investigator's independence in the
performance of the reserve investigator's duties for the
prosecuting attorney.
SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015.
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