1-1 By: Bivins S.B. No. 1350
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed April 6, 1993; April 13, 1993, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 April 27, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5,
1-5 Nays 0; April 27, 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 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-16 AN ACT
1-17 relating to district court bailiffs in Midland County.
1-18 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-19 SECTION 1. Subsections (b) and (e), Section 53.004,
1-20 Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-21 (b) To be eligible to be appointed bailiff in the 30th,
1-22 78th, 86th, 89th, 97th, <142nd, 238th, 318th,> or 341st district
1-23 court, the County Court of Harrison County, a court described in
1-24 Section 53.002(c), a district court in Taylor County, a county
1-25 court at law of Taylor County, or bailiff or grand jury bailiff in
1-26 the 297th District Court, a person must be a resident of the county
1-27 in which the person serves the court and must be at least 21 years
1-28 old.
1-29 (e) To be eligible to be appointed bailiff in a district
1-30 court in Midland County or under Section 53.001(g), a person must
1-31 be at least 21 years old and hold a peace officer license under
1-32 Chapter 415 from the Commission on Law Enforcement Officer
1-33 Standards and Education. This subsection does not apply to a
1-34 person serving as bailiff of a court described by Section 53.001(g)
1-35 on September 1, 1991.
1-36 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
1-37 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-38 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-39 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-40 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-41 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-42 * * * * *
1-43 Austin,
1-44 Texas
1-45 April 27, 1993
1-46 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-47 President of the Senate
1-48 Sir:
1-49 We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred S.B.
1-50 No. 1350, have had the same under consideration, and I am
1-51 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
1-52 that it do pass and be printed.
1-53 Henderson,
1-54 Chairman
1-55 * * * * *
1-56 WITNESSES
1-57 No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 1350.