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.