By Thompson                                            H.B. No. 780
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                                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.