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.