1-1 By: Yarbrough (Senate Sponsor - Montford) H.B. No. 1138 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1993; 1-3 May 4, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 25, 1993, reported adversely, with 1-5 favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 1-6 0; May 25, 1993, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE VOTE 1-8 Yea Nay PNV Absent 1-9 Armbrister x 1-10 Leedom x 1-11 Carriker x 1-12 Henderson x 1-13 Madla x 1-14 Moncrief x 1-15 Patterson x 1-16 Rosson x 1-17 Shapiro x 1-18 Wentworth x 1-19 Whitmire x 1-20 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1138 By: Moncrief 1-21 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-22 AN ACT 1-23 relating to the term of office of a municipal judge. 1-24 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-25 SECTION 1. Section 29.005, Government Code, is amended to 1-26 read as follows: 1-27 Sec. 29.005. Term of Office. The judge of a municipal court 1-28 serves for a term of office of two years unless the municipality 1-29 provides for a longer term pursuant to Article XI, Section 11, of 1-30 the Texas Constitution. A municipal court judge who is not 1-31 reappointed by the 91st day following the expiration of a term of 1-32 office shall, absent action by the appointing authority, continue 1-33 to serve for another term of office beginning on the date the 1-34 previous term of office expired. 1-35 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 1994. 1-36 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-37 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-38 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-39 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-40 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-41 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-42 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-43 * * * * * 1-44 Austin, 1-45 Texas 1-46 May 25, 1993 1-47 Hon. Bob Bullock 1-48 President of the Senate 1-49 Sir: 1-50 We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was 1-51 referred H.B. No. 1138, have had the same under consideration, and 1-52 I am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the 1-53 recommendation that it do not pass, but that the Committee 1-54 Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do pass and be printed. 1-55 Armbrister, 1-56 Chairman 1-57 * * * * * 1-58 WITNESSES 1-59 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 1138.