By: Montford S.B. No. 868 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the term of office of municipal judges. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Section 29.005, Government Code, is amended to 1-4 read as follows: 1-5 Sec. 29.005. Term of Office. The judge of a municipal court 1-6 serves for a term of office of two years unless the municipality 1-7 provides for a longer term pursuant to Article XI, Section 11, of 1-8 the Texas Constitution. A municipal court judge who is not 1-9 reappointed shall not continue to perform the duties of office 1-10 until the judge's successor is qualified for more than 90 days 1-11 after the expiration of the term. 1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 1994. 1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and that this Act take effect and 1-18 be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.