By: Martin H.B. No. 797 73R3752 RJA-F A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the assignment of certain judges and justices as 1-3 visiting judges. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 74.053(d), Government Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (d) A former judge or justice who was not a retired judge 1-8 may not sit in a civil case if either party objects to the judge or 1-9 justice. 1-10 SECTION 2. This Act applies only to the assignment of a 1-11 former judge or justice under Chapter 74, Government Code, made on 1-12 or after the effective date of this Act. An assignment made before 1-13 the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at 1-14 the time the assignment was made, and that law is continued in 1-15 effect for that purpose. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.