1-1  By:  Puente (Senate Sponsor - Luna)                   H.B. No. 3203
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1995;
    1-3  May 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Jurisprudence; May 18, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable
    1-5  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 2;
    1-6  May 18, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-7  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 3203                    By:  Luna
    1-8                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-9                                AN ACT
   1-10  relating to the election of municipal court of record judges in San
   1-11  Antonio.
   1-12        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-13        SECTION 1.  Section 30.084(b), Government Code, is amended to
   1-14  read as follows:
   1-15        (b)  The city shall provide <by charter> for the <appointment
   1-16  or> election of 10 or more full-time municipal judges from
   1-17  single-member districts <a municipal judge>.  Each judge
   1-18  representing a district must reside in the district.  The city
   1-19  council shall base the districts on the boundaries of city council
   1-20  districts.  The selection must be for a term of four years.  The
   1-21  city council shall appoint, from a list supplied by a majority of
   1-22  the full-time judges, persons to serve as part-time municipal
   1-23  judges.  Part-time judges serve at the will of the majority of the
   1-24  full-time judges and do not serve a term.  A vacancy in the office
   1-25  of part-time judge is filled in the same manner as the original
   1-26  appointment.
   1-27        SECTION 2.  Section 30.084(e), Government Code, is amended to
   1-28  read as follows:
   1-29        (e)  The full-time judges shall select, by majority vote, one
   1-30  of the full-time judges to serve as presiding municipal judge for a
   1-31  six-month term.  There is no limit on the number of terms a judge
   1-32  may serve as presiding municipal judge, but a judge may not serve
   1-33  more than two consecutive terms as <If there is more than one
   1-34  municipal judge, the governing body shall appoint one of the judges
   1-35  to be the presiding municipal judge.  If the city has only one
   1-36  municipal judge or only one permanent, full-time municipal judge,
   1-37  that judge is the> presiding municipal judge.
   1-38        SECTION 3.  A municipal court of record judge in San Antonio
   1-39  in office on the effective date of this Act, unless otherwise
   1-40  removed from office, continues to serve until judges have been
   1-41  elected or appointed as provided by this Act.  Five judges shall be
   1-42  elected in May 1997 with terms that expire in 2001.  Five judges
   1-43  shall be elected in May 1999 with terms that expire in 2003.  The
   1-44  city council shall determine from which districts the voters elect
   1-45  judges in 1997 and 1999.  The city council shall appoint five
   1-46  judges in 1997.  The judges appointed under this Act in 1997
   1-47  continue to serve, unless otherwise removed from office, until five
   1-48  judges are elected in 1999.
   1-49        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-50  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-51  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-52  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-53  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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