By Allen                                              H.B. No. 3811
         76R4274 JMC-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the appointment of a judge of a municipal court of
 1-3     record in Grand Prairie.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 30.00426(d), Government Code, is amended
 1-6     to read as follows:
 1-7           (d)  The city manager shall post in a public place notice of
 1-8     any vacancy in the office of municipal court judge or chief
 1-9     municipal court judge.  A person may apply for the position of
1-10     municipal court judge or chief municipal court judge by submitting
1-11     to the city manager an application for the position.  The city
1-12     manager shall review each application submitted and nominate a
1-13     qualified applicant for the position.  Appointments under
1-14     Subsection (b) or (c) must be made from a nomination made by the
1-15     city manager as provided by this subsection [list of nominees filed
1-16     with the city manager by the Grand Prairie Municipal Court
1-17     Nominations Advisory Committee.  The Grand Prairie Municipal Court
1-18     Nominations Advisory Committee shall be composed of representatives
1-19     of the following organizations: the Mexican-American Bar
1-20     Association, the J. L. Turner Bar Association, and the Grand
1-21     Prairie Bar Association.  The Grand Prairie Municipal Court
1-22     Nominations Advisory Committee may meet as necessary.  The city
1-23     shall provide appropriate facilities and support staff to allow the
1-24     Grand Prairie Municipal Court Nominations Advisory Committee to
 2-1     conduct proceedings in an efficient and expeditious manner].
 2-2           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
 2-3           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-4     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-5     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-6     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-7     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.