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.
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   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
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   1-56                               WITNESSES
   1-57  No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 1350.