73R9004 MWV-D
By Raymond H.B. No. 2174
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2174:
By Cuellar of Webb C.S.H.B. No. 2174
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to qualifications of presiding judges of administrative
1-3 judicial regions.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 74.045, Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 74.045. Qualifications of Presiding Judge. (a) A
1-8 presiding judge must be <at the time of appointment>:
1-9 (1) a regularly elected or retired district judge;
1-10 (2) a former judge with at least 12 years of service
1-11 as a district judge; <or>
1-12 (3) an active court of appeals justice <a retired
1-13 appellate judge> with judicial experience on a district court; or
1-14 (4) a former or retired supreme court justice, court
1-15 of criminal appeals judge, or court of appeals justice.
1-16 (b) If the judge or justice is a retired or former judge or
1-17 justice, he must have voluntarily retired from or left office<,
1-18 must reside within the administrative region,> and must have
1-19 certified his willingness to serve.
1-20 (c) A presiding judge must reside within the administrative
1-21 region at the time of appointment and while serving as presiding
1-22 judge.
1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.