By Gallego                                            H.B. No. 3077
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the appointment of an acting county judge.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Chapter 26, Government Code, is amended by adding
    1-5  Section 26.015 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 26.015.  APPOINTMENT OF ACTING OF COUNTY JUDGE.
    1-7  (a)  Upon the suspension of a constitutional county judge by the
    1-8  State Commission on Judicial Conduct under Art. V, Sec. 1-a,
    1-9  Constitution of the State of Texas, the commissioners court shall
   1-10  appoint a resident of the county to fill the office until the next
   1-11  term of that office or until the suspension ends, whichever event
   1-12  occurs first.
   1-13        (b)  The Commissioners court shall compensate the acting
   1-14  judge by the day, week, or month in an amount equal to the
   1-15  compensation of the regular judge.  For budget amendment purposes
   1-16  under Chapter 111, Local Government Code, this requirement shall
   1-17  constitute an emergency.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect on September 1, 1995.
   1-19        SECTION 3.  EMERGENCY.  The importance of this legislation
   1-20  and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
    2-1  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-2  passage, and it is so enacted.