By:  Bivins                                           S.B. No. 1350
       73R5379 MWV-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to district court bailiffs in Midland County.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Sections 53.004(b) and (e), Government Code, are
    1-5  amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (b)  To be eligible to be appointed bailiff in the 30th,
    1-7  78th, 86th, 89th, 97th, <142nd, 238th, 318th,> or 341st district
    1-8  court, the County Court of Harrison County, a court described in
    1-9  Section 53.002(c), a district court in Taylor County, a county
   1-10  court at law of Taylor County, or bailiff or grand jury bailiff in
   1-11  the 297th District Court, a person must be a resident of the county
   1-12  in which the person serves the court and must be at least 21 years
   1-13  old.
   1-14        (e)  To be eligible to be appointed bailiff in a district
   1-15  court in Midland County or under Section 53.001(g), a person must
   1-16  be at least 21 years old and hold a peace officer license under
   1-17  Chapter 415 from the Commission on Law Enforcement Officer
   1-18  Standards and Education.  This subsection does not apply to a
   1-19  person serving as bailiff of a court described by Section 53.001(g)
   1-20  on September 1, 1991.
   1-21        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.