1-1 By: Duncan S.B. No. 1173 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1997; March 17, 1997, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; 1-4 April 4, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; April 4, 1997, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1173 By: Duncan 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to holding at the same time more than one office of 1-11 municipal judge filled by appointment. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Section 574.001, Government Code, is amended to 1-14 read as follows: 1-15 Sec. 574.001. FINDING OF CONSTITUTIONAL COMPLIANCE. (a) A 1-16 nonelective state officer may not accept an offer to serve in 1-17 another nonelective office unless the officer obtains from the 1-18 governing body or, if there is not a governing body, the executive 1-19 head of the agency, division, department, or institution with which 1-20 the officer is associated a finding that the officer has satisfied 1-21 Article XVI, Section 40, of the Texas Constitution. 1-22 (b) A person may hold the office of municipal judge for more 1-23 than one municipality at the same time if each office is filled by 1-24 appointment. The holding of these offices at the same time is of 1-25 benefit to this state. 1-26 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-27 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-28 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-29 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-30 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-31 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-32 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-33 * * * * *