73R6992 RJA-D
          By Puente                                             H.B. No. 1423
          Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1423:
          By Puente                                         C.S.H.B. No. 1423
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the election of certain county court judges.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 25, Government Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Sections 25.0013 and 25.0017 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 25.0013.  RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT OF JUDGES.  A statutory
    1-7  county court judge elected by place from an area that is less than
    1-8  the entire county may, but need not, be a resident of the area from
    1-9  which elected.
   1-10        Sec. 25.0017.  ELECTION BY PLACE.  In a county in which this
   1-11  chapter requires election by place of statutory county court
   1-12  judges, the commissioners court shall establish the area of each
   1-13  place in the county.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  Section 25.0171, Government Code, is amended by
   1-15  adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
   1-16        (d)  The statutory county court judges shall be elected by
   1-17  place.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  Section 25.0591, Government Code, is amended by
   1-19  adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:
   1-20        (e)  The statutory county court judges shall be elected by
   1-21  place.
   1-22        SECTION 4.  Section 25.1031, Government Code, is amended by
   1-23  adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
   1-24        (d)  The statutory county court judges shall be elected by
    2-1  place.
    2-2        SECTION 5.  Section 25.2221, Government Code, is amended by
    2-3  adding Subsection (d) to read as follows:
    2-4        (d)  The statutory county court judges shall be elected by
    2-5  place.
    2-6        SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
    2-7  applies beginning with the primary and general elections in 1994
    2-8  for terms beginning on or after January 1, 1995.
    2-9        SECTION 7.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.