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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