S.B. No. 610
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the composition of a county bail bond board.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 5, Chapter 550, Acts of
1-4 the 63rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 2372p-3,
1-5 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as amended by Chapters 641 and 921,
1-6 Acts of the 70th Legislature, Regular Session, 1987, is amended to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 (b) The County Bail Bond Board shall be composed of the
1-9 following persons:
1-10 (1) the county sheriff or a designee from his office
1-11 who may be his administrator or a deputy sheriff of the rank of
1-12 sergeant or greater;
1-13 (2) a district judge of the county having jurisdiction
1-14 over criminal matters designated by the presiding judge of the
1-15 administrative judicial district;
1-16 (3) the county judge or a member of the commissioners
1-17 court designated by the county judge, or a designee approved by the
1-18 commissioners court;
1-19 (4) a judge of a county court or a county court at law
1-20 in the county having jurisdiction over criminal matters designated
1-21 by the commissioners court;
1-22 (5) the district attorney or his designee if that
1-23 person is an assistant district attorney;
1-24 (6) a licensed bondsman, licensed in the county,
2-1 elected by other county licensees;
2-2 (7) a justice of the peace;
2-3 (8) the district clerk or his designee;
2-4 (9) the county clerk or a designee from his office,
2-5 except in those counties where the county clerk has no criminal
2-6 matters jurisdiction; <and>
2-7 (10) the board may appoint a presiding judge of a
2-8 municipal court located within the county;
2-9 (11) <. (10)> the presiding municipal judge of the
2-10 principal city in a county in which the principal city designates a
2-11 presiding judge in its municipal court system; and
2-12 (12) the county treasurer or the treasurer's designee
2-13 except in those counties that have no county treasurer, in which
2-14 case the county commissioners court may designate the person who
2-15 carries out the duties of the county treasurer to serve on the
2-16 board.
2-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-23 passage, and it is so enacted.