By: Henderson S.B. No. 610
73R5283 CAG-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the composition of a county bail bond board.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 5(b), Chapter 550, Acts of the 63rd
1-5 Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 2372p-3, Vernon's Texas
1-6 Civil Statutes), as amended by Chapters 641 and 921, Acts of the
1-7 70th Legislature, Regular Session, 1987, is amended to read as
1-8 follows:
1-9 (b) The County Bail Bond Board shall be composed of the
1-10 following persons:
1-11 (1) the county sheriff or a designee from his office
1-12 who may be his administrator or a deputy sheriff of the rank of
1-13 sergeant or greater;
1-14 (2) a district judge of the county having jurisdiction
1-15 over criminal matters designated by the presiding judge of the
1-16 administrative judicial district;
1-17 (3) the county judge or a member of the commissioners
1-18 court designated by the county judge, or a designee approved by the
1-19 commissioners court;
1-20 (4) a judge of a county court or a county court at law
1-21 in the county having jurisdiction over criminal matters designated
1-22 by the commissioners court;
1-23 (5) the district attorney or his designee if that
1-24 person is an assistant district attorney;
2-1 (6) a licensed bondsman, licensed in the county,
2-2 elected by other county licensees;
2-3 (7) a justice of the peace;
2-4 (8) the district clerk or his designee;
2-5 (9) the county clerk or a designee from his office,
2-6 except in those counties where the county clerk has no criminal
2-7 matters jurisdiction; <and>
2-8 (10) the board may appoint a presiding judge of a
2-9 municipal court located within the county;<.>
2-10 (11) <(10)> the presiding municipal judge of the
2-11 principal city in a county in which the principal city designates a
2-12 presiding judge in its municipal court system; and
2-13 (12) the county treasurer or the treasurer's designee.
2-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-20 passage, and it is so enacted.