Bill Text: TX HB480 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to retaining a reserve investigator by a prosecuting attorney.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-06-17 - Effective on 9/1/15 [HB480 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB480-Enrolled.html
| H.B. No. 480 | ||
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| 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 [ |
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| are required for the proper and efficient operation and | ||
| administration of the office. The commissioners court may | ||
| authorize a prosecuting attorney to appoint reserve investigators. | ||
| The commissioners court may limit the number of reserve | ||
| investigators that a prosecuting attorney may appoint. 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. | ||
| ______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
| President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
| I certify that H.B. No. 480 was passed by the House on May 12, | ||
| 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
| voting. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Chief Clerk of the House | ||
| I certify that H.B. No. 480 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
| 26, 2015, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
| ______________________________ | ||
| Secretary of the Senate | ||
| APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
| Date | ||
| _____________________ | ||
| Governor | ||
