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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