By: Luna S.B. No. 836
73R6194 RJA-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the election of municipal court of record judges in San
1-3 Antonio.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 30.084(b), Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (b) The city shall provide by charter for the <appointment
1-8 or> election of municipal judges from single-member districts <a
1-9 municipal judge>. Each judge representing a single-member district
1-10 must reside in the district. The city shall attempt to base the
1-11 districts on the boundaries of county justice of the peace
1-12 precincts located in the city.
1-13 SECTION 2. This Act applies to selection of municipal court
1-14 of record judges in San Antonio for terms beginning on or after
1-15 January 1, 1995. A judge in office on the effective date of this
1-16 Act, unless otherwise removed from office, continues to serve until
1-17 judges have been elected as provided by this Act.
1-18 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.