By:  Hilbert                                          H.B. No. 1284
       73R5283 CAG-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the composition of a county bail bond board.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 5(b), Chapter 550, Acts of the 63rd
    1-5  Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 2372p-3, Vernon's Texas
    1-6  Civil Statutes), as amended by Chapters 641 and 921, Acts of the
    1-7  70th Legislature, Regular Session, 1987, is amended to read as
    1-8  follows:
    1-9        (b)  The County Bail Bond Board shall be composed of the
   1-10  following persons:
   1-11              (1)  the county sheriff or a designee from his office
   1-12  who may be his administrator or a deputy sheriff of the rank of
   1-13  sergeant or greater;
   1-14              (2)  a district judge of the county having jurisdiction
   1-15  over criminal matters designated by the presiding judge of the
   1-16  administrative judicial district;
   1-17              (3)  the county judge or a member of the commissioners
   1-18  court designated by the county judge, or a designee approved by the
   1-19  commissioners court;
   1-20              (4)  a judge of a county court or a county court at law
   1-21  in the county having jurisdiction over criminal matters designated
   1-22  by the commissioners court;
   1-23              (5)  the district attorney or his designee if that
   1-24  person is an assistant district attorney;
    2-1              (6)  a licensed bondsman, licensed in the county,
    2-2  elected by other county licensees;
    2-3              (7)  a justice of the peace;
    2-4              (8)  the district clerk or his designee;
    2-5              (9)  the county clerk or a designee from his office,
    2-6  except in those counties where the county clerk has no criminal
    2-7  matters jurisdiction; <and>
    2-8              (10)  the board may appoint a presiding judge of a
    2-9  municipal court located within the county;<.>
   2-10              (11) <(10)>  the presiding municipal judge of the
   2-11  principal city in a county in which the principal city designates a
   2-12  presiding judge in its municipal court system; and
   2-13              (12)  the county treasurer or the treasurer's designee.
   2-14        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-19  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-20  passage, and it is so enacted.