By: West S.B. No. 691 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 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. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-24 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 2-1 Amend Senate Bill 691 by striking Section 2 on page 1, line 2-2 16, and renumbering Section 3 as Section 2. 2-3 Thompson