By Luna S.B. No. 1608
74R8638 MWV-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the election of municipal court of record judges in San
1-3 Antonio.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 30.084(b), Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (b) The city shall provide by charter for the <appointment
1-8 or> election of 10 full-time municipal judges from single-member
1-9 districts <a municipal judge>. Each judge representing a district
1-10 must reside in the district. The city council shall base the
1-11 districts on the boundaries of city council districts. The
1-12 selection must be for a definite term of not less than two nor more
1-13 than four years, the duration of which within these limits shall be
1-14 determined by charter, ordinance, or the method prescribed in
1-15 Article XI, Section 11, of the Texas Constitution. The city
1-16 council shall appoint, from a list supplied by a majority of the
1-17 full-time judges, six persons to serve as part-time municipal
1-18 judges. Part-time judges serve at the will of the majority of the
1-19 full-time judges and do not serve a term. A vacancy in the office
1-20 of part-time judge is filled in the same manner as the original
1-21 appointment.
1-22 SECTION 2. Section 30.084(e), Government Code, is amended to
1-23 read as follows:
1-24 (e) The full-time judges shall select, by majority vote, one
2-1 of the full-time judges to serve as presiding municipal judge for a
2-2 six-month term. There is no limit on the number of terms a judge
2-3 may serve as presiding municipal judge, but a judge may not serve
2-4 more than two consecutive terms as presiding municipal judge <If
2-5 there is more than one municipal judge, the governing body shall
2-6 appoint one of the judges to be the presiding municipal judge. If
2-7 the city has only one municipal judge or only one permanent,
2-8 full-time municipal judge, that judge is the presiding municipal
2-9 judge>.
2-10 SECTION 3. This Act applies to selection of municipal court
2-11 of record judges in San Antonio for terms beginning on or after
2-12 January 1, 1996. A judge in office on the effective date of this
2-13 Act, unless otherwise removed from office, continues to serve until
2-14 judges have been elected as provided by this Act.
2-15 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.