By Thompson                                           H.B. No. 2114
       74R4560 JMM-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the composition of a county bail bond board.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 5(b), Chapter 550, Acts of the 63rd
    1-5  Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 2372p-3, Vernon's Texas
    1-6  Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (b)  The County Bail Bond Board shall be composed of the
    1-8  following persons:
    1-9              (1)  the county sheriff or a designee from his office
   1-10  who may be his administrator or a deputy sheriff of the rank of
   1-11  sergeant or greater;
   1-12              (2)  a district judge of the county having jurisdiction
   1-13  over criminal matters designated by the presiding judge of the
   1-14  administrative judicial district;
   1-15              (3)  the county judge or a member of the commissioners
   1-16  court designated by the county judge, or a designee approved by the
   1-17  commissioners court;
   1-18              (4)  a judge of a county court or a county court at law
   1-19  in the county having jurisdiction over criminal matters designated
   1-20  by the commissioners court;
   1-21              (5)  the district attorney or his designee if that
   1-22  person is an assistant district attorney;
   1-23              (6)  a licensed bondsman, licensed in the county,
   1-24  elected by other county licensees;
    2-1              (7)  a justice of the peace or a person designated by:
    2-2                    (A)  the presiding judge of the justices of the
    2-3  peace in the county, if a presiding judge is provided by law; or
    2-4                    (B)  a majority of the justices of the peace in
    2-5  the county;
    2-6              (8)  the district clerk or his designee;
    2-7              (9)  the county clerk or a designee from his office,
    2-8  except in those counties where the county clerk has no criminal
    2-9  matters jurisdiction;
   2-10              (10)  the board may appoint a presiding judge of a
   2-11  municipal court located within the county;
   2-12              (11)  the presiding municipal judge of the principal
   2-13  city in a county in which the principal city designates a presiding
   2-14  judge in its municipal court system; and
   2-15              (12)  the county treasurer or the treasurer's designee
   2-16  except in those counties that have no county treasurer, in which
   2-17  case the county commissioners court may designate the person who
   2-18  carries out the duties of the county treasurer to serve on the
   2-19  board.
   2-20        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-25  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-26  passage, and it is so enacted.