By: Duncan S.B. No. 1173 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to holding at the same time more than one office of 1-2 municipal judge filled by appointment. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 574.001, Government Code, is amended to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 574.001. FINDING OF CONSTITUTIONAL COMPLIANCE. (a) A 1-7 nonelective state officer may not accept an offer to serve in 1-8 another nonelective office unless the officer obtains from the 1-9 governing body or, if there is not a governing body, the executive 1-10 head of the agency, division, department, or institution with which 1-11 the officer is associated a finding that the officer has satisfied 1-12 Article XVI, Section 40, of the Texas Constitution. 1-13 (b) A person may hold the office of municipal judge for more 1-14 than one municipality at the same time if each office is filled by 1-15 appointment. The holding of these offices at the same time is of 1-16 benefit to this state. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.