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.
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   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.