By Smithee                                            H.B. No. 2132
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the term of office of municipal judges.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 29.005, Government Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 29.005.  Term of Office.  The judge of a municipal court
    1-7  serves for a term of office of two years unless the municipality
    1-8  provides for a longer term pursuant to Article XI, Section 11, of
    1-9  the Texas Constitution.  A municipal court judge who is not
   1-10  reappointed shall not continue to perform the duties of office
   1-11  until the judge's successor is qualified for more than 90 days
   1-12  after the expiration of the term.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect January 1, 1994.
   1-14        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-19  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-20  passage, and it is so enacted.