1-1 By: Luna S.B. No. 836
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1993; March 15, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; May 4, 1993,
1-4 reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 4, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Henderson x
1-9 Harris of Tarrant x
1-10 Brown x
1-11 Harris of Dallas x
1-12 Luna x
1-13 Parker x
1-14 West x
1-15 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 836 By: Luna
1-16 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-17 AN ACT
1-18 relating to the election of municipal court of record judges in San
1-19 Antonio.
1-20 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-21 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 30.084, Government Code,
1-22 is amended to read as follows:
1-23 (b) The city shall provide by charter for the <appointment
1-24 or> election of nine full-time municipal judges from single-member
1-25 or multi-member districts <a municipal judge>. Each judge
1-26 representing a district must reside in the district. The city
1-27 council shall base the districts on the boundaries of city council
1-28 districts. The selection must be for a definite term of not less
1-29 than two nor more than four years, the duration of which within
1-30 these limits shall be determined by charter, ordinance, or the
1-31 method prescribed in Article XI, Section 11, of the Texas
1-32 Constitution. The city council shall appoint, from a list supplied
1-33 by a majority of the full-time judges, six persons to serve as
1-34 part-time municipal judges. Part-time judges serve at the will of
1-35 the majority of the full-time judges and do not serve a term. A
1-36 vacancy in the office of part-time judge is filled in the same
1-37 manner as the original appointment.
1-38 SECTION 2. Subsection (e), Section 30.084, Government Code,
1-39 is amended to read as follows:
1-40 (e) The full-time judges shall select, by majority vote, one
1-41 of the full-time judges to serve as presiding municipal judge for a
1-42 six-month term. There is no limit on the number of terms a judge
1-43 may serve as presiding municipal judge, but a judge may not serve
1-44 more than two consecutive terms as presiding municipal judge <If
1-45 there is more than one municipal judge, the governing body shall
1-46 appoint one of the judges to be the presiding municipal judge. If
1-47 the city has only one municipal judge or only one permanent,
1-48 full-time municipal judge, that judge is the presiding municipal
1-49 judge>.
1-50 SECTION 3. This Act applies to selection of municipal court
1-51 of record judges in San Antonio for terms beginning on or after
1-52 January 1, 1995. A judge in office on the effective date of this
1-53 Act, unless otherwise removed from office, continues to serve until
1-54 judges have been elected as provided by this Act.
1-55 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-56 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-57 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-58 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-59 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-60 * * * * *
1-61 Austin,
1-62 Texas
1-63 May 4, 1993
1-64 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-65 President of the Senate
1-66 Sir:
1-67 We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred S.B. No.
1-68 836, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
2-1 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not
2-2 pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do
2-3 pass and be printed.
2-4 Henderson,
2-5 Chairman
2-6 * * * * *
2-7 WITNESSES
2-8 No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 836.