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.
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