By Chisum                                             H.B. No. 1921
         76R1753 MLS-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 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.  The salary shall be
1-15     apportioned by the judge among the counties in which the bailiff is
1-16     designated to serve.  The judge shall give each commissioners court
1-17     in the district written notification of the amount of compensation
1-18     to be paid by the county.  The salary is paid out of the general
1-19     fund of each county.
1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
 2-1     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
 2-2     passage, and it is so enacted.