1-1 By: Montford S.B. No. 868
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1993; March 15, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 April 20, 1993, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 20, 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 AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Henderson
1-16 Amend S.B. No. 868 by deleting SECTION 2 of the bill and replacing
1-17 it with the following:
1-18 SECTION 2. Section 1 of this Act amending Section 29.005,
1-19 Government Code, takes effect on the date on which the
1-20 constitutional amendment proposed by S.J.R. No. 36, 73rd
1-21 Legislature, Regular Session, 1993, takes effect.
1-22 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-23 AN ACT
1-24 relating to the term of office of certain municipal judges.
1-25 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-26 SECTION 1. Section 29.005, Government Code, is amended to
1-27 read as follows:
1-28 Sec. 29.005. TERM OF OFFICE. The judge of a municipal court
1-29 serves for a term of office of two years unless the municipality
1-30 provides for a longer term pursuant to Article XI, Section 11, of
1-31 the Texas Constitution. A municipal court judge who is not
1-32 reappointed shall not continue to perform the duties of office
1-33 until the judge's successor is qualified for more than 90 days
1-34 after the expiration of the term.
1-35 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 1994.
1-36 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-37 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-38 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-39 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-40 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-41 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-42 passage, and it is so enacted.
1-43 * * * * *
1-44 Austin,
1-45 Texas
1-46 April 20, 1993
1-47 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-48 President of the Senate
1-49 Sir:
1-50 We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred S.B. No.
1-51 868, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
1-52 report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
1-53 pass, as amended, and be printed.
1-54 Henderson,
1-55 Chairman
1-56 * * * * *
1-57 WITNESSES
1-58 No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 868.