By: Alvarado H.B. No. 440
73R1993 RJA-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to assignment of certain former district judges as
1-3 visiting judges.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 74.054(a), Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) Except as provided by Subsections (b), <and> (c), and
1-8 (d), the following judges may be assigned as provided by this
1-9 chapter by the presiding judge of the administrative region in
1-10 which the assigned judge resides:
1-11 (1) a regular district, constitutional county, or
1-12 statutory county court judge in this state;
1-13 (2) a district or appellate judge who is a retiree
1-14 under Subtitle D or E of Title 8, who has consented to be subject
1-15 to assignment, and who is on the list maintained by the presiding
1-16 judge under this chapter;
1-17 (3) a former district or appellate judge or retired or
1-18 former statutory county court judge who certifies to the presiding
1-19 judge a willingness to serve and who is on the list maintained by
1-20 the presiding judge as required by this chapter;
1-21 (4) a retiree or a former judge whose last judicial
1-22 office before retirement was justice or judge of the supreme court,
1-23 the court of criminal appeals, or a court of appeals and who has
1-24 been assigned by the chief justice to the administrative judicial
2-1 region in which the retiree or former judge resides for
2-2 reassignment by the presiding judge of that region to a district or
2-3 statutory county court in the region; and
2-4 (5) an active court of appeals justice who has had
2-5 trial court experience.
2-6 SECTION 2. Section 74.054, Government Code, is amended by
2-7 adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
2-8 (d) A former district judge may not be assigned as a
2-9 visiting judge if the former district judge has been defeated for
2-10 reelection as a district judge.
2-11 SECTION 3. This Act applies to assignments of former
2-12 district judges under Chapter 74, Government Code, made on or after
2-13 the effective date of this Act. An assignment made before the
2-14 effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect at the
2-15 time of the assignment, and that law is continued in effect for
2-16 that purpose.
2-17 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-23 passage, and it is so enacted.