1-1     By:  Thompson (Senate Sponsor - Ellis)                 H.B. No. 780
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1999;
 1-3     May 6, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to designation of a municipal court judge as a member of a
1-10     county bail bond board.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 5(b), Chapter 550, Acts of the  63rd
1-13     Legislature, Regular Session, 1973 (Article 2372p-3, Vernon's Texas
1-14     Civil Statutes), is amended to read as follows:
1-15           (b)  The County Bail Bond Board shall be composed of the
1-16     following persons:
1-17                 (1)  the county sheriff or a designee from his office
1-18     who may be his administrator or a deputy sheriff of the rank of
1-19     sergeant or greater;
1-20                 (2)  a district judge of the county having jurisdiction
1-21     over criminal matters designated by the presiding judge of the
1-22     administrative judicial district;
1-23                 (3)  the county judge or a member of the commissioners
1-24     court designated by the county judge, or a designee approved by the
1-25     commissioners court;
1-26                 (4)  a judge of a county court or a county court at law
1-27     in the county having jurisdiction over criminal matters designated
1-28     by the commissioners court;
1-29                 (5)  the district attorney or his designee if that
1-30     person is an assistant district attorney;
1-31                 (6)  a licensed bondsman, licensed in the county,
1-32     elected by other county licensees;
1-33                 (7)  a justice of the peace;
1-34                 (8)  the district clerk or his designee;
1-35                 (9)  the county clerk or a designee from his office,
1-36     except in those counties where the county clerk has no criminal
1-37     matters jurisdiction;
1-38                 (10)  the board may appoint a presiding judge of a
1-39     municipal court located within the county;
1-40                 (11)  the presiding municipal judge of the principal
1-41     city in a county in which the principal city designates a presiding
1-42     judge in its municipal court system, or a municipal judge from that
1-43     system whom the presiding judge designates; and
1-44                 (12)  the county treasurer or the treasurer's designee
1-45     except in those counties that have no county treasurer, in which
1-46     case the county commissioners court may designate the person who
1-47     carries out the duties of the county treasurer to serve on the
1-48     board.
1-49           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-50     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-51     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-52     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-53     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-54     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-55     passage, and it is so enacted.
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