1-1 By: Smithee (Senate Sponsor - Bivins) H.B. No. 3803
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999;
1-3 May 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by
1-5 the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to the appointment of a bailiff for the County Court at
1-10 Law of Randall County.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 53.001(g), Government Code, is amended to
1-13 read as follows:
1-14 (g) The judges of the district courts having jurisdiction in
1-15 Potter and Randall counties and the judges of the county courts at
1-16 law in Potter and Randall counties [County] shall each appoint a
1-17 bailiff.
1-18 SECTION 2. Section 53.009(a), Government Code, is amended to
1-19 read as follows:
1-20 (a) Each bailiff appointed by a judge of the 30th, 78th,
1-21 89th, or 355th district court, by a district judge in Potter,
1-22 Randall, or Taylor County, or by a judge of a county court at law
1-23 of Potter, Randall, or Taylor County is entitled to receive a
1-24 salary set by the judge and approved by the commissioners court.
1-25 The salary is paid out of the general fund of the county, except in
1-26 Potter and Randall counties [County], where the salary shall be set
1-27 by the commissioners court of each respective county.
1-28 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-29 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-30 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-31 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-32 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-33 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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