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By:  Lindsay                                                    S.J.R. No. 36 



A JOINT RESOLUTION

proposing a constitutional amendment to include a constitutional 
county court judge on the membership of the State Commission on 
Judicial Conduct.
	BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                       
	SECTION 1.  Subsection (2), Section 1-a, Article V, Texas 
Constitution, is amended to read as follows:
		(2)  The State Commission on Judicial Conduct consists 
of twelve (12) [eleven (11)] members, to wit:  (i) one (1) Justice 
of a Court of Appeals; (ii) one (1) District Judge; (iii) two (2) 
members of the State Bar, who have respectively practiced as such 
for over ten (10) consecutive years next preceding their selection; 
(iiii) four (4) citizens, at least thirty (30) years of age, not 
licensed to practice law nor holding any salaried public office or 
employment; (v) one (1) Justice of the Peace; (vi) one (1) Judge of 
a Municipal Court; [and,] (vii) one (1) Judge of a County Court at 
Law; and (viii) one (1) Judge of a Constitutional County Court; 
provided that no person shall be or remain a member of the 
Commission, who does not maintain physical residence within this 
State, or who resides in, or holds a judgeship within or for, the 
same Supreme Judicial District as another member of the Commission, 
or who shall have ceased to retain the qualifications above 
specified for his respective class of membership, except that the 
Justice of the Peace and the Judges of a Municipal Court and or a 
County Court at Law shall be selected at large without regard to 
whether they reside or hold a judgeship in the same Supreme Judicial 
District as another member of the Commission.  Commissioners of 
classes (i), (ii), [and] (vii), and (viii) above shall be chosen by 
the Supreme Court with advice and consent of the Senate, those of 
class (iii) by the Board of Directors of the State Bar under 
regulations to be prescribed by the Supreme Court with advice and 
consent of the Senate, those of class (iiii) by appointment of the 
Governor with advice and consent of the Senate, and the 
commissioners of classes (v) and (vi) by appointment of the Supreme 
Court as provided by law, with the advice and consent of the Senate.
	SECTION 2.  This proposed constitutional amendment shall be 
submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 8, 2005.  
The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the 
proposition:  "The constitutional amendment to include a 
constitutional county judge on the membership of the State 
Commission on Judicial Conduct."