| |
| |
|
|
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
|
|
|
AN ACT
|
|
|
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. |