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.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-02-03 - Referred to State Affairs [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. | ||
