By Smithee                                            H.B. No. 3803
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the appointment of a bailiff for the County Court at
 1-3     Law of Randall County.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 53.001(g), Government Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (g)  The judges of the district courts having jurisdiction in
 1-8     Potter and Randall counties and the judges of the county courts at
 1-9     law in Potter and Randall counties [County] shall each appoint a
1-10     bailiff.
1-11           SECTION 2.  Section 53.009(a), Government Code, is amended to
1-12     read as follows:
1-13           (a)  Each bailiff appointed by a judge of the 30th, 78th,
1-14     89th, or 355th district court, by a district judge in Potter,
1-15     Randall, or Taylor County, or by a judge of a county court at law
1-16     of Potter, Randall, or Taylor County is entitled to  receive a
1-17     salary set by the judge and approved by the commissioners court.
1-18     The salary is paid out of the general fund of the county, except in
1-19     Potter and Randall counties [County], where the salary shall be set
1-20     by the commissioners court of each respective county.
1-21           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22           SECTION 4.  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.