1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the appointment of a bailiff for certain counties in 1-3 the 84th Judicial District. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 53.002, Government Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: 1-7 (h) The judge of the 84th District Court may appoint a 1-8 bailiff to serve the court in Hansford and Hutchinson counties. 1-9 SECTION 2. Section 53.009(k), Government Code, is amended to 1-10 read as follows: 1-11 (k) The bailiffs of the 12th, 84th, 258th, and 278th 1-12 district courts are entitled to receive a salary set by the judge 1-13 and approved by the commissioners court of each of the counties in 1-14 which the bailiff is designated to serve, except that the amount of 1-15 the salary paid the bailiff of the 84th District Court must be 1-16 commensurate with the salary paid the bailiffs of other courts with 1-17 similar duties. The salary shall be apportioned by the judge among 1-18 the counties in which the bailiff is designated to serve. The 1-19 judge shall give each commissioners court in the district written 1-20 notification of the amount of compensation to be paid by the 1-21 county. The salary is paid out of the general fund of each county. 1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-3 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-4 passage, and it is so enacted. _______________________________ _______________________________ President of the Senate Speaker of the House I certify that H.B. No. 1921 was passed by the House on May 4, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, 2 present, not voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. No. 1921 on May 26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 2 present, not voting. _______________________________ Chief Clerk of the House I certify that H.B. No. 1921 was passed by the Senate, with amendments, on May 24, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0. _______________________________ Secretary of the Senate APPROVED: _____________________ Date _____________________ Governor