84R4162 CAE-D
By: Bell H.B. No. 480
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. A prosecuting attorney may also
retain reserve investigators. 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.