By Thompson H.B. No. 780 76R4225 MXM-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to designation of a municipal court judge as a member of a 1-3 county bail bond board. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 5(b), Chapter 550, Acts of the 63rd 1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 2372p-3, Vernon's Texas 1-7 Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows: 1-8 (b) The County Bail Bond Board shall be composed of the 1-9 following persons: 1-10 (1) the county sheriff or a designee from his office 1-11 who may be his administrator or a deputy sheriff of the rank of 1-12 sergeant or greater; 1-13 (2) a district judge of the county having jurisdiction 1-14 over criminal matters designated by the presiding judge of the 1-15 administrative judicial district; 1-16 (3) the county judge or a member of the commissioners 1-17 court designated by the county judge, or a designee approved by the 1-18 commissioners court; 1-19 (4) a judge of a county court or a county court at law 1-20 in the county having jurisdiction over criminal matters designated 1-21 by the commissioners court; 1-22 (5) the district attorney or his designee if that 1-23 person is an assistant district attorney; 1-24 (6) a licensed bondsman, licensed in the county, 2-1 elected by other county licensees; 2-2 (7) a justice of the peace; 2-3 (8) the district clerk or his designee; 2-4 (9) the county clerk or a designee from his office, 2-5 except in those counties where the county clerk has no criminal 2-6 matters jurisdiction; 2-7 (10) the board may appoint a presiding judge of a 2-8 municipal court located within the county; 2-9 (11) the presiding municipal judge of the principal 2-10 city in a county in which the principal city designates a presiding 2-11 judge in its municipal court system, or a municipal judge from that 2-12 system whom the presiding judge designates; and 2-13 (12) the county treasurer or the treasurer's designee 2-14 except in those counties that have no county treasurer, in which 2-15 case the county commissioners court may designate the person who 2-16 carries out the duties of the county treasurer to serve on the 2-17 board. 2-18 SECTION 2. 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.