By: Stiles H.B. No. 568
73R1698 ESH-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to masters appointed by the district and county courts at
1-3 law of Jefferson County.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Article 2.09, Code of Criminal Procedure, is
1-6 amended to read as follows:
1-7 Art. 2.09. Who Are Magistrates. Each of the following
1-8 officers is a magistrate within the meaning of this Code: The
1-9 justices of the Supreme Court, the judges of the Court of Criminal
1-10 Appeals, the justices of the Courts of Appeals, the judges of the
1-11 District Court, the magistrates appointed by the judges of the
1-12 district courts of Bexar County, Dallas County, or Tarrant County
1-13 that give preference to criminal cases, the magistrates appointed
1-14 by the judges of the district courts of Lubbock County, <and> the
1-15 magistrates appointed by the judges of the criminal district courts
1-16 of Dallas County or Tarrant County, the masters appointed by the
1-17 judges of the district courts and the county courts at law that
1-18 give preference to criminal cases in Jefferson County, the county
1-19 judges, the judges of the county courts at law, judges of the
1-20 county criminal courts, the judges of statutory probate courts, the
1-21 justices of the peace, the mayors and recorders and the judges of
1-22 the municipal courts of incorporated cities or towns.
1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-4 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-5 passage, and it is so enacted.