1-1 By: Chisum (Senate Sponsor - Bivins) H.B. No. 1921 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 Jurisprudence; May 14, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable 1-5 Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 3, Nays 0; 1-6 May 14, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1921 By: Harris 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the appointment of a bailiff for certain counties in 1-11 the 84th Judicial District. 1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-13 SECTION 1. Section 53.002, Government Code, is amended by 1-14 adding Subsection (h) to read as follows: 1-15 (h) The judge of the 84th District Court may appoint a 1-16 bailiff to serve the court in Hansford and Hutchinson counties. 1-17 SECTION 2. Section 53.009(k), Government Code, is amended to 1-18 read as follows: 1-19 (k) The bailiffs of the 12th, 84th, 258th, and 278th 1-20 district courts are entitled to receive a salary set by the judge 1-21 and approved by the commissioners court of each of the counties in 1-22 which the bailiff is designated to serve, except that the amount of 1-23 the salary paid the bailiff of the 84th District Court must be 1-24 commensurate with the salary paid the bailiffs of other courts with 1-25 similar duties. The salary shall be apportioned by the judge among 1-26 the counties in which the bailiff is designated to serve. The 1-27 judge shall give each commissioners court in the district written 1-28 notification of the amount of compensation to be paid by the 1-29 county. The salary is paid out of the general fund of each county. 1-30 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-31 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-32 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-33 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-34 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-35 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-36 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-37 * * * * *