By Smithee H.B. No. 3803
76R6351 JMC-D
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.