By Cain S.B. No. 421
75R597 RJA-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the assignment of certain former district judges as
1-3 visiting judges.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 74.055(e), Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (e) For purposes of Subsections [Subsection] (c)(1) and (f),
1-8 a month of service is calculated as a calendar month or a portion
1-9 of a calendar month in which a judge was authorized by election or
1-10 appointment by the governor to preside.
1-11 SECTION 2. Section 74.055, Government Code, is amended by
1-12 adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
1-13 (f) A former district judge is not required to meet the 48
1-14 months of service requirement in Subsection (c)(1) to be eligible
1-15 to be named on the list if the judge:
1-16 (1) has served as a constitutional county judge for at
1-17 least 48 months; and
1-18 (2) was licensed as an attorney in this state for at
1-19 least 48 months of the judge's tenure as a constitutional county
1-20 judge.
1-21 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-22 applies to the assignment of a former district judge under Chapter
1-23 74, Government Code, made on or after that date. An assignment
1-24 made before the effective date of this Act is covered by the law in
2-1 effect on the date the assignment was made, and that law is
2-2 continued in effect for that purpose.
2-3 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.