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.
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