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. Chapter 26, Government Code, is amended by adding 1-4 Section 26.015 to read as follows: 1-5 Sec. 26.015. APPOINTMENT OF ACTING OF COUNTY JUDGE. 1-6 (a) Upon the suspension of a constitutional county judge by the 1-7 State Commission on Judicial Conduct under Art. V, Sec. 1-a, 1-8 Constitution of the State of Texas, the commissioners court shall 1-9 appoint a resident of the county to fill the office until the next 1-10 term of that office or until the suspension ends, whichever event 1-11 occurs first. 1-12 (b) The Commissioners court shall compensate the acting 1-13 judge by the day, week, or month in an amount equal to the 1-14 compensation of the regular judge. For budget amendment purposes 1-15 under Chapter 111, Local Government Code, this requirement shall 1-16 constitute an emergency. 1-17 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect on September 1, 1995. 1-18 SECTION 3. EMERGENCY. The importance of this legislation 1-19 and the crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-1 passage, and it is so enacted.