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| 1 | 1 | 89R3285 EAS-F | |
| 2 | 2 | By: Hagenbuch S.B. No. 1457 | |
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| 7 | 7 | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED | |
| 8 | 8 | AN ACT | |
| 9 | 9 | relating to a district or county attorney participating as counsel | |
| 10 | 10 | in certain proceedings. | |
| 11 | 11 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | |
| 12 | 12 | SECTION 1. Article 2A.105(b), Code of Criminal Procedure, | |
| 13 | 13 | is amended to read as follows: | |
| 14 | 14 | (b) A district or county attorney may not: | |
| 15 | 15 | (1) be of counsel adversely to the state in any case in | |
| 16 | 16 | any court except as an attorney ad litem appointed under Chapter | |
| 17 | 17 | 262, Family Code; or | |
| 18 | 18 | (2) after the attorney ceases to be a district or | |
| 19 | 19 | county attorney, be of counsel adversely to the state in any case in | |
| 20 | 20 | which the attorney has been of counsel for the state. | |
| 21 | 21 | SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | |
| 22 | 22 | to the prosecution of an offense committed on or after the effective | |
| 23 | 23 | date of this Act. The prosecution of an offense committed before | |
| 24 | 24 | the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on | |
| 25 | 25 | the date the offense was committed, and the former law is continued | |
| 26 | 26 | in effect for that purpose. For purposes of this section, an | |
| 27 | 27 | offense was committed before the effective date of this Act if any | |
| 28 | 28 | element of the offense occurred before that date. | |
| 29 | 29 | SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |