Bill Text: TX SB772 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to legal representation for certain emergency services districts.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-08 - Not again placed on intent calendar [SB772 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-SB772-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Hancock | S.B. No. 772 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed February 25, 2015; March 2, 2015, | ||
| read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental | ||
| Relations; April 23, 2015, reported favorably by the following | ||
| vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 23, 2015, sent to printer.) | ||
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| relating to legal representation for certain emergency services | ||
| districts. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 775, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 775.0315 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 775.0315. LEGAL REPRESENTATION. (a) This section | ||
| applies only to a district located wholly in a county with a | ||
| population of 1.8 million or more in which two or more cities with a | ||
| population of 350,000 or more are located. | ||
| (b) A district may employ or contract with private legal | ||
| counsel to represent the district on any legal matter. If the | ||
| district does not employ or contract with private legal counsel on a | ||
| legal matter, the county attorney, district attorney, or criminal | ||
| district attorney, as appropriate, with the duty to represent the | ||
| county in civil matters shall represent the district. | ||
| (c) A district that receives legal services from a county | ||
| attorney, district attorney, or criminal district attorney may | ||
| employ additional private legal counsel on the board's | ||
| determination that additional counsel is advisable. A district | ||
| that contracts or employs private legal counsel under Subsection | ||
| (b) may request and receive additional legal services from the | ||
| county attorney, district attorney, or criminal district attorney, | ||
| as appropriate, with the duty to represent the county in civil | ||
| matters on the board's determination that additional counsel is | ||
| necessary. | ||
| (d) If the district receives legal services from a county | ||
| attorney, district attorney, or criminal district attorney, the | ||
| district shall contribute money to be credited to the county's | ||
| general fund account for the county attorney, district attorney, or | ||
| criminal district attorney, as appropriate, in amounts sufficient | ||
| to pay all additional salaries and expenses incurred by that | ||
| officer in performing the duties required by the district. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2015. | ||
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