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.