S.B. No. 691 AN ACT 1-1 relating to the appointment of an acting county judge. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 26, Government Code, is 1-4 amended by adding Section 26.015 to read as follows: 1-5 Sec. 26.015. APPOINTMENT OF ACTING COUNTY JUDGE. (a) Upon 1-6 the suspension of a constitutional county judge by the State 1-7 Commission on Judicial Conduct under Section 1-a, Article V, Texas 1-8 Constitution, the commissioners court may appoint a resident of the 1-9 county to fill the office until the next term of that office or 1-10 until the suspension ends, whichever event occurs first. 1-11 (b) The commissioners court shall compensate the acting 1-12 judge by the day, week, or month in an amount equal to the 1-13 compensation of the regular judge. For budget amendment purposes 1-14 under Chapter 111, Local Government Code, this requirement shall 1-15 constitute an emergency. 1-16 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.