By Madden H.B. No. 198
74R816 PB-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the frequency of meetings of a county bail bond board
1-3 and to the judicial review of decisions of that board.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 5(d), Chapter 550, Acts of the 63rd
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 2372p-3, Vernon's Texas
1-7 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-8 (d) Four members of the board shall constitute a quorum for
1-9 the conduct of business. All action by the board shall require the
1-10 vote of a majority of the members present. The board shall meet at
1-11 the call of the chairman as frequently as is necessary to conduct
1-12 the business of the board <at least once a month>.
1-13 SECTION 2. Section 11, Chapter 550, Acts of the 63rd
1-14 Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 2372p-3, Vernon's Texas
1-15 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-16 Sec. 11. Court Review. An appeal may be taken from any
1-17 board's order revoking, suspending, or refusing to issue a license.
1-18 The appeal must be made within 30 days after written notice of the
1-19 suspension, revocation, or refusal by filing a petition in a
1-20 district court in the county in which the license is issued or
1-21 refused. If no appeal is taken within 30 days after written notice
1-22 of suspension, revocation, or refusal, such action shall become
1-23 final. The <An> appeal is under the substantial evidence rule
1-24 <shall be by trial de novo, as in proceedings appealed from justice
2-1 to county courts>. The decision of the board shall have full force
2-2 and effect pending the determination of the appeal. All appeals
2-3 taken from actions of the board shall be against the board and not
2-4 against the members individually.
2-5 SECTION 3. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
2-6 (b) Section 11, Chapter 550, Acts of the 63rd Legislature,
2-7 Regular Session, 1973 (Article 2372p-3, Vernon's Texas Civil
2-8 Statutes), as amended by Section 2 of this Act, applies only to an
2-9 appeal of an order of a county bail bond board that is filed on or
2-10 after September 1, 1995. An appeal filed before that date is
2-11 governed by the law in effect on the date that the petition for the
2-12 appeal is filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
2-13 purpose.
2-14 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.