By Puente H.B. No. 3203
74R7455 MWV-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the election of municipal court of record judges in San
1-3 Antonio.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 30.084(b), Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (b) The city shall provide by charter for the <appointment
1-8 or> election of 10 full-time municipal judges from single-member
1-9 districts <a municipal judge>. Each judge representing a district
1-10 must reside in the district. The city council shall base the
1-11 districts on the boundaries of city council districts. The
1-12 selection must be for a term of four years. The city council shall
1-13 appoint, from a list supplied by a majority of the full-time
1-14 judges, persons to serve as part-time municipal judges. Part-time
1-15 judges serve at the will of the majority of the full-time judges
1-16 and do not serve a term. A vacancy in the office of part-time
1-17 judge is filled in the same manner as the original appointment.
1-18 SECTION 2. Section 30.084(e), Government Code, is amended to
1-19 read as follows:
1-20 (e) The full-time judges shall select, by majority vote, one
1-21 of the full-time judges to serve as presiding municipal judge for a
1-22 six-month term. There is no limit on the number of terms a judge
1-23 may serve as presiding municipal judge, but a judge may not serve
1-24 more than two consecutive terms as presiding municipal judge <If
2-1 there is more than one municipal judge, the governing body shall
2-2 appoint one of the judges to be the presiding municipal judge. If
2-3 the city has only one municipal judge or only one permanent,
2-4 full-time municipal judge, that judge is the presiding municipal
2-5 judge>.
2-6 SECTION 3. A municipal court of record judge in San Antonio
2-7 in office on the effective date of this Act, unless otherwise
2-8 removed from office, continues to serve until judges have been
2-9 elected or appointed as provided by this Act. Five judges shall be
2-10 elected in 1996 with terms that expire in 2000. Five judges shall
2-11 be elected in 1998 with terms that expire in 2002. The city
2-12 council shall determine from which districts the voters elect
2-13 judges in 1996 and 1998. The city council shall appoint five
2-14 judges in 1996. The judges appointed under this Act in 1996
2-15 continue to serve, unless otherwise removed from office, until five
2-16 judges are elected in 1998.
2-17 SECTION 4. 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.