By Craddick H.B. No. 3104
75R1355 SAW-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to appointment of a bailiff for the 385th district court
1-3 in Midland County.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 53.002(a), Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (a) The judges of the 34th, 86th, 142nd, 238th, 318th, [and]
1-8 355th, and 385th district courts may each appoint a bailiff.
1-9 SECTION 2. Section 53.007(a), Government Code, is amended to
1-10 read as follows:
1-11 (a) This section applies to:
1-12 (1) the 22nd, 34th, 70th, 71st, 86th, 97th, 142nd,
1-13 161st, 238th, 297th, 318th, 341st, [and] 355th, and 385th district
1-14 courts;
1-15 (2) the County Court of Harrison County;
1-16 (3) the criminal district courts of Tarrant County;
1-17 (4) the district courts in Taylor County;
1-18 (5) the courts described in Section 53.002(c), (d),
1-19 (e), or (f); and
1-20 (6) the county courts at law of Taylor County.
1-21 SECTION 3. Section 53.008, Government Code, is amended to
1-22 read as follows:
1-23 Sec. 53.008. OATH. The bailiffs of the 22nd, 34th, 70th,
1-24 86th, 97th, 142nd, 161st, 238th, 297th, 318th, 341st, [and] 355th,
2-1 and 385th district courts, the bailiffs of the courts described in
2-2 Section 53.002(c), (d), (e), or (f), the grand jury bailiff of the
2-3 297th District Court, the bailiffs of the district courts in Taylor
2-4 County, and the bailiffs of the county courts at law of Taylor
2-5 County shall each swear to the following oath, to be administered
2-6 by the judge: "I solemnly swear that I will faithfully and
2-7 impartially perform all duties as may be required of me by law, so
2-8 help me God."
2-9 SECTION 4. Section 53.009(b), Government Code, is amended to
2-10 read as follows:
2-11 (b) Each bailiff appointed by a judge of the 142nd, 238th,
2-12 [or] 318th, or 385th district court is entitled to receive from
2-13 each county in which the court sits the amount of compensation set
2-14 by the judge in an amount that does not exceed the salary of the
2-15 chief deputy sheriff of the county. The judge shall give each
2-16 commissioners court in the district written notification of the
2-17 amount of compensation to be paid by the county.
2-18 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-24 passage, and it is so enacted.