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.