By: Luna S.B. No. 836
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the election of municipal court of record judges in San
1-2 Antonio.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 30.084, Government Code,
1-5 is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) The city shall provide by charter for the <appointment
1-7 or> election of nine full-time municipal judges from single-member
1-8 or multi-member districts <a municipal judge>. Each judge
1-9 representing a district must reside in the district. The city
1-10 council shall base the districts on the boundaries of city council
1-11 districts. The selection must be for a definite term of not less
1-12 than two nor more than four years, the duration of which within
1-13 these limits shall be determined by charter, ordinance, or the
1-14 method prescribed in Article XI, Section 11, of the Texas
1-15 Constitution. The city council shall appoint, from a list supplied
1-16 by a majority of the full-time judges, six persons to serve as
1-17 part-time municipal judges. Part-time judges serve at the will of
1-18 the majority of the full-time judges and do not serve a term. A
1-19 vacancy in the office of part-time judge is filled in the same
1-20 manner as the original appointment.
1-21 SECTION 2. Subsection (e), Section 30.084, Government Code,
1-22 is amended to read as follows:
1-23 (e) The full-time judges shall select, by majority vote, one
1-24 of the full-time judges to serve as presiding municipal judge for a
2-1 six-month term. There is no limit on the number of terms a judge
2-2 may serve as presiding municipal judge, but a judge may not serve
2-3 more than two consecutive terms as presiding municipal judge <If
2-4 there is more than one municipal judge, the governing body shall
2-5 appoint one of the judges to be the presiding municipal judge. If
2-6 the city has only one municipal judge or only one permanent,
2-7 full-time municipal judge, that judge is the presiding municipal
2-8 judge>.
2-9 SECTION 3. This Act applies to selection of municipal court
2-10 of record judges in San Antonio for terms beginning on or after
2-11 January 1, 1995. A judge in office on the effective date of this
2-12 Act, unless otherwise removed from office, continues to serve until
2-13 judges have been elected as provided by this Act.
2-14 SECTION 4. 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.