83R7227 YDB-D
	By: Nichols	S.B. No. 1881

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to the composition of the 12th and 369th Judicial
	Districts, the redesignation of the district attorney for the 12th
	Judicial District as the district attorney for the 369th Judicial
	District, and the composition of the Leon County juvenile board.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 24.113, Government Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 24.113.  12TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (GRIMES, [LEON,]
	MADISON, AND WALKER COUNTIES). [(a)] The 12th Judicial District is
	composed of Grimes, [Leon,] Madison, and Walker counties.
	[(b)     The terms of the 12th District Court in each county of
	the district begin on the first Mondays in January and July.]
	SECTION 2.  Section 24.514, Government Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 24.514.  369TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (ANDERSON, [AND]
	CHEROKEE, AND LEON COUNTIES). The 369th Judicial District is
	composed of Anderson, [and] Cherokee, and Leon counties.
	SECTION 3.  Section 43.106, Government Code, is redesignated
	as Section 43.1815, Government Code, and amended to read as
	follows:
	Sec. 43.1815 [43.106].  369TH [12TH] JUDICIAL DISTRICT. (a)
	The voters of Leon County elect a district attorney for the 369th
	[12th] Judicial District who represents the state in that district
	court only in Leon County.
	(b)  The district attorney of the 369th [12th] Judicial
	District also represents the state in all criminal and civil
	actions in which the state is interested that arise in the 87th
	Judicial District in Leon County.
	(c)  The district attorney may, with the consent of the
	Commissioners Court of Leon County, appoint a deputy district
	attorney.
	(d)  The Commissioners Court of Leon County shall pay the
	salary and traveling expenses of the deputy district attorney from
	the officers' salary fund. The salary shall be paid in equal monthly
	installments and expense claims shall be paid at the end of each
	month. The salary is subject to participation fully in the Texas
	County and District Retirement System.
	SECTION 4.  Section 46.002, Government Code, is amended to
	read as follows:
	Sec. 46.002.  PROSECUTORS SUBJECT TO CHAPTER. This chapter
	applies to the state prosecuting attorney, all county prosecutors,
	and the following state prosecutors:
	(1)  the district attorneys for Kenedy and Kleberg
	Counties and for the 1st, 2nd, 8th, 9th, [12th,] 18th, 21st, 23rd,
	25th, 26th, 27th, 29th, 31st, 32nd, 33rd, 34th, 35th, 36th, 38th,
	39th, 42nd, 43rd, 46th, 47th, 49th, 50th, 51st, 52nd, 53rd, 63rd,
	64th, 66th, 69th, 70th, 76th, 81st, 83rd, 84th, 85th, 88th, 90th,
	97th, 100th, 105th, 106th, 109th, 110th, 112th, 118th, 119th,
	123rd, 142nd, 143rd, 145th, 156th, 159th, 173rd, 196th, 198th,
	216th, 220th, 229th, 235th, 253rd, 258th, 259th, 266th, 268th,
	271st, 286th, 329th, 344th, 349th, 355th, 369th, and 506th judicial
	districts;
	(2)  the criminal district attorneys for the counties
	of Anderson, Austin, Bastrop, Bexar, Bowie, Brazoria, Caldwell,
	Calhoun, Cass, Collin, Comal, Dallas, Deaf Smith, Denton, Eastland,
	Fannin, Galveston, Grayson, Gregg, Harrison, Hays, Hidalgo,
	Jasper, Jefferson, Kaufman, Lubbock, McLennan, Madison, Navarro,
	Newton, Panola, Polk, Randall, Rockwall, San Jacinto, Smith,
	Tarrant, Taylor, Tyler, Upshur, Van Zandt, Victoria, Walker,
	Waller, Wichita, Wood, and Yoakum; and
	(3)  the county attorneys performing the duties of
	district attorneys in the counties of Andrews, Callahan, Cameron,
	Castro, Colorado, Crosby, Ellis, Falls, Freestone, Lamar, Lamb,
	Lampasas, Lee, Limestone, Marion, Milam, Morris, Ochiltree,
	Orange, Rains, Red River, Robertson, Rusk, Swisher, Terry, Webb,
	and Willacy.
	SECTION 5.  Section 152.1511(a), Human Resources Code, as
	amended by Chapters 531 (H.B. 956), 1152 (H.B. 3045), and 1352 (S.B.
	1189), Acts of the 79th Legislature, Regular Session, 2005, is
	reenacted to read as follows:
	(a)  The juvenile board of Leon County is composed of the
	county judge and the district judges in Leon County.
	SECTION 6.  (a)  The local administrative district judge
	shall transfer all cases from Leon County that are pending in the
	12th District Court on September 1, 2013, to the 369th District
	Court.
	(b)  When a case is transferred as provided by Subsection (a)
	of this section, all processes, writs, bonds, recognizances, or
	other obligations issued from the 12th District Court are
	returnable to the 369th District Court as if originally issued by
	that court. The obligees on all bonds and recognizances taken in
	and for the 12th District Court and all witnesses summoned to appear
	in the 12th District Court are required to appear before the 369th
	District Court as if originally required to appear before that
	court.
	SECTION 7.  The person serving as district attorney for the
	12th Judicial District on September 1, 2013, unless otherwise
	removed from office, continues to serve in that office as
	redesignated as the district attorney for the 369th Judicial
	District for the term to which elected or appointed.
	SECTION 8.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.