Bill Text: TX SB474 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to revocation of a prosecuting attorney's license to practice law in this state on a court's finding the attorney committed certain official misconduct.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-22 - Filed [SB474 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB474-Introduced.html
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By: Middleton | S.B. No. 474 |
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relating to revocation of a prosecuting attorney's license to | ||
practice law in this state on a court's finding the attorney | ||
committed certain official misconduct. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 87.018, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (i) to read as follows: | ||
(i) In addition to implementing other action authorized by | ||
this subchapter and on a finding that a prosecuting attorney | ||
accused of committing official misconduct under Section | ||
87.011(3)(B) or (C) adopted or enforced a policy described by | ||
Section 87.011(3)(B) or permitted an attorney employed by or | ||
otherwise under the direction or control of the prosecuting | ||
attorney to act as described by Section 87.011(3)(C), the court | ||
shall revoke the prosecuting attorney's license to practice law in | ||
this state. | ||
SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act apply only to | ||
a proceeding to remove a prosecuting attorney from office commenced | ||
on or after the effective date of this Act. A proceeding to remove a | ||
prosecuting attorney from office commenced before the effective | ||
date of this Act is governed by the law in effect immediately before | ||
the effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect | ||
for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. |