81R2088 BEF-D
By:
Heflin
H.B. No. 328
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to abolishing the office of inspector of hides and
animals.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1.
(a)
The office of inspector of hides and animals
is abolished.
(b)
animals
Any records in the custody of an inspector of hides and
are
transferred
to
the
county
clerk
of
the
county
previously served by the inspector.
SECTION 2.
Section 52.092(e), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(e)
County offices shall be listed in the following order:
(1)
county judge;
(2)
judge, county court at law;
(3)
judge, county criminal court;
(4)
judge, county probate court;
(5)
county attorney;
(6)
district clerk;
(7)
district and county clerk;
(8)
county clerk;
(9)
sheriff;
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(10)
sheriff and tax assessor-collector;
(11)
county tax assessor-collector;
(12)
county treasurer;
(13)
county school trustee (county with population of
3.3 million or more);
(14)
county surveyor[;
[(15)
SECTION 3.
inspector of hides and animals].
Section 172.024(a), Election Code, is amended to
read as follows:
(a)
The filing fee for a candidate for nomination in the
general primary election is as follows:
(1)
United States senator ....................
$5,000
(2)
office
States
elected
statewide,
except
United
senator ..................................................
3,750
(3)
United States representative ..............
3,125
(4)
state senator .............................
1,250
(5)
state representative ........................
750
(6)
member, State Board of Education ............
300
(7)
chief justice or justice, court of appeals, other
than a justice specified by Subdivision (8) ..............
(8)
chief justice or justice of
a court of appeals that
serves a court of appeals district in which a county
population
of more than 750,000 is wholly or partly
with a
situated
..........................................................
(9)
district
judge
or
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judge
1,875
specified
by
2,500
Section
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52.092(d) for which this schedule does not otherwise prescribe a
fee ......................................................
(10)
1,500
district or criminal district judge of a court in a
judicial district wholly contained in a county with a population of
more than 850,000 ........................................
(11)
judge, statutory county court, other than a judge
specified by Subdivision (12) ............................
(12)
1,500
judge of a statutory county court in a county with
a population of more than 850,000 ........................
(13)
2,500
2,500
district attorney, criminal district attorney, or
county attorney performing the duties of a district attorney
(14)
1,250
county commissioner, district clerk, county clerk,
sheriff, county tax assessor-collector, county treasurer, or judge,
constitutional county court:
(A)
county with a population of 200,000 or more
..........................................................
(B)
(15)
county with a population of under 200,000
county with a population of 200,000 or more
..........................................................
(B)
1,000
county with a population of under 200,000
375
county surveyor [, inspector of hides and animals,]
or public weigher ...........................................
(17)
750
justice of the peace or constable:
(A)
(16)
1,250
75
office of the county government for which this
schedule does not otherwise prescribe a fee ................
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750
H.B. No. 328
Section 87.012, Local Government Code, is amended
SECTION 4.
to read as follows:
Sec. 87.012.
OFFICERS SUBJECT TO REMOVAL.
The district judge
may, under this subchapter, remove from office:
(1)
a district attorney;
(2)
a county attorney;
(3)
a county judge;
(4)
a county commissioner;
(5)
a county clerk;
(6)
a district clerk;
(7)
a district and county clerk;
(8)
a county treasurer;
(9)
a sheriff;
(10)
a county surveyor;
(11)
a county tax assessor-collector;
(12)
a constable;
(13)
[an inspector of hides and animals;
[(14)]
(14)
a justice of the peace;
[(15)]
and
a county officer, not otherwise named by
this section, whose office is created under the constitution or
other law of this state.
SECTION 5.
Section
87.041(a),
Local
Government
Code,
is
amended to read as follows:
(a)
The commissioners court of a county may fill a vacancy in
the office of:
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(1)
county judge;
(2)
county clerk;
(3)
district and county clerk;
(4)
sheriff;
(5)
county attorney;
(6)
county treasurer;
(7)
county surveyor;
(8)
[inspector of hides and animals;
[(9)]
county tax assessor-collector;
(9) [(10)]
(10) [(11)]
SECTION 6.
justice of the peace;
or
constable.
Sections
148.044,
148.067,
and
148.068,
Agriculture Code, are repealed.
SECTION 7.
This Act takes effect immediately if it receives a
vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.
If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2009.
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