82R12511 CAE-D
By: Flynn H.B. No. 3022
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the appointment of a bailiff for the 196th District
Court.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 53.002(a), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) The judges of the 34th, 86th, 130th, 142nd, 196th,
238th, 318th, 355th, and 385th district courts may each appoint a
bailiff.
SECTION 2. Section 53.009(b), Government Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) Each bailiff appointed by a judge of the 142nd, 196th,
238th, 318th, or 385th district court is entitled to receive from
each county in which the court sits the amount of compensation set
by the judge in an amount that does not exceed the salary of the
chief deputy sheriff of the county. The judge shall give each
commissioners court in the district written notification of the
amount of compensation to be paid by the county.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011.