By Denny H.B. No. 482 74R681 MLR-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to county and district clerks reporting judicial 1-3 appointments. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter G, Chapter 51, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Section 51.607 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 51.607. REPORT OF JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS. (a) Except 1-8 as provided by Subsection (d), each district or county court clerk 1-9 shall report to the Office of Court Administration on the first 1-10 working day of each month every appointment that: 1-11 (1) was made during the preceding month by a judge, 1-12 magistrate, master, or referee in a civil case in the court; and 1-13 (2) involves payment of a fee to a person of more than 1-14 $250. 1-15 (b) The report must include the: 1-16 (1) name of each person appointed; 1-17 (2) name of the judge, magistrate, master, or referee 1-18 making the appointment; 1-19 (3) number and style of the case; 1-20 (4) date the appointment was made; 1-21 (5) position to which the person was appointed; 1-22 (6) amount of the fee approved for payment; and 1-23 (7) source of the payment. 1-24 (c) The clerk shall report to the State Commission on 2-1 Judicial Conduct the name of any judge, magistrate, master, or 2-2 referee who refuses or fails to provide the clerk with the 2-3 information required by this section. The State Commission on 2-4 Judicial Conduct shall send a copy of that report to the Texas 2-5 Ethics Commission. 2-6 (d) The report requirement in Subsection (a) does not apply 2-7 to an appointment to which the following applies: 2-8 (1) compensation is paid by a government salary rather 2-9 than by fee; 2-10 (2) selection of the person appointed is a right that 2-11 is reserved by law to a party; or 2-12 (3) the appointment relates to a private process 2-13 server under Rule 103, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. 2-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and 2-15 applies only to an appointment made by a judge, magistrate, master, 2-16 or referee on or after that date. 2-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.