1-1 By: West S.B. No. 691 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 21, 1995; February 22, 1995, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; 1-4 April 11, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 11, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: West 1-7 Amend S.B. No. 691 by deleting the word "shall" on line 9 1-8 (committee printing page 1, line 18), and inserting "may". 1-9 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-10 AN ACT 1-11 relating to the appointment of an acting county judge. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 26, Government Code, is 1-14 amended by adding Section 26.015 to read as follows: 1-15 Sec. 26.015. APPOINTMENT OF ACTING COUNTY JUDGE. (a) Upon 1-16 the suspension of a constitutional county judge by the State 1-17 Commission on Judicial Conduct under Section 1-a, Article V, Texas 1-18 Constitution, the commissioners court shall appoint a resident of 1-19 the county to fill the office until the next term of that office or 1-20 until the suspension ends, whichever event occurs first. 1-21 (b) The commissioners court shall compensate the acting 1-22 judge by the day, week, or month in an amount equal to the 1-23 compensation of the regular judge. For budget amendment purposes 1-24 under Chapter 111, Local Government Code, this requirement shall 1-25 constitute an emergency. 1-26 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-27 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-28 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-29 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-30 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-31 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-32 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-33 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-34 * * * * *