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. 1-56 * * * * *