By: Raymond H.B. No. 2174
73R5541 MWV-D
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 or <a> retired court of appeals
1-13 <appellate> judge with judicial experience on a district court.
1-14 (b) If the judge is a retired or former district judge, he
1-15 must have voluntarily retired from or left office, must reside
1-16 within the administrative region at the time of appointment and
1-17 while serving as presiding judge, and must have certified his
1-18 willingness to serve.
1-19 (c) If the judge is a retired court of appeals judge with
1-20 judicial experience on a district court, he must have voluntarily
1-21 retired from office, must reside within the administrative region
1-22 at the time of appointment and while serving as presiding judge,
1-23 and must have certified his willingness to serve.
1-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.