1-1 By: Henderson S.B. No. 610
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 4, 1993; March 4, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Criminal Justice;
1-4 March 23, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
1-5 Nays 0; March 23, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Whitmire x
1-9 Brown x
1-10 Nelson x
1-11 Sibley x
1-12 Sims x
1-13 Turner x
1-14 West x
1-15 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-16 AN ACT
1-17 relating to the composition of a county bail bond board.
1-18 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-19 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 5, Chapter 550, Acts of
1-20 the 63rd Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 2372p-3,
1-21 Vernon's Texas Civil Statutes), as amended by Chapters 641 and 921,
1-22 Acts of the 70th Legislature, Regular Session, 1987, is amended to
1-23 read as follows:
1-24 (b) The County Bail Bond Board shall be composed of the
1-25 following persons:
1-26 (1) the county sheriff or a designee from his office
1-27 who may be his administrator or a deputy sheriff of the rank of
1-28 sergeant or greater;
1-29 (2) a district judge of the county having jurisdiction
1-30 over criminal matters designated by the presiding judge of the
1-31 administrative judicial district;
1-32 (3) the county judge or a member of the commissioners
1-33 court designated by the county judge, or a designee approved by the
1-34 commissioners court;
1-35 (4) a judge of a county court or a county court at law
1-36 in the county having jurisdiction over criminal matters designated
1-37 by the commissioners court;
1-38 (5) the district attorney or his designee if that
1-39 person is an assistant district attorney;
1-40 (6) a licensed bondsman, licensed in the county,
1-41 elected by other county licensees;
1-42 (7) a justice of the peace;
1-43 (8) the district clerk or his designee;
1-44 (9) the county clerk or a designee from his office,
1-45 except in those counties where the county clerk has no criminal
1-46 matters jurisdiction; <and>
1-47 (10) the board may appoint a presiding judge of a
1-48 municipal court located within the county;
1-49 (11) <. (10)> the presiding municipal judge of the
1-50 principal city in a county in which the principal city designates a
1-51 presiding judge in its municipal court system; and
1-52 (12) the county treasurer or the treasurer's designee.
1-53 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-54 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-55 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-56 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-57 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-58 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-59 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-60 * * * * *
1-61 Austin,
1-62 Texas
1-63 March 23, 1993
1-64 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-65 President of the Senate
1-66 Sir:
1-67 We, your Committee on Criminal Justice to which was referred S.B.
1-68 No. 610, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
2-1 to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
2-2 pass and be printed.
2-3 Whitmire,
2-4 Chairman
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2-6 WITNESSES
2-7 FOR AGAINST ON
2-8 ___________________________________________________________________
2-9 Name: Katy Caldwell x
2-10 Representing: County Treasures Association
2-11 City: Houston
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2-13 Name: J. Sutton Taylor x
2-14 Representing: Prof Bondsman of Texas
2-15 City: Dallas
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2-17 Name: Susan Wendell x
2-18 Representing: Tx Assoc of Counties
2-19 City: Austin
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2-21 Name: Sue Brock x
2-22 Representing: Clay Co. Treasurer
2-23 City: Henrietta
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2-25 Name: Harry Wallingford x
2-26 Representing: County Treasurers Association
2-27 City: Austin
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2-29 Name: Sharon Reynolds x
2-30 Representing: Brazoria Co. Treasurer
2-31 City: Angleton
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2-33 Name: Donald Lee x
2-34 Representing: Harris Co. Commissioners Ct
2-35 City: Houston
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