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.