73R3929 MWV-D
          By Gallego                                            H.B. No. 1031
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to expenses of the court reporter for the 112th Judicial
    1-3  District.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Sections 52.057(a) and (b), Government Code, are
    1-6  amended to read as follows:
    1-7        (a)  Notwithstanding Section 52.055, the expenses of the
    1-8  official court reporters for the 31st, 46th, 104th, 112th, and
    1-9  155th judicial districts shall be reimbursed as prescribed by this
   1-10  section.
   1-11        (b)  The official court reporters <reporter> for the 31st and
   1-12  112th judicial districts are <Judicial District is> entitled to
   1-13  receive travel expense allowances in the same amounts as a state
   1-14  employee.  The allowances <allowance> shall be paid as prescribed
   1-15  by Sections 52.055(c) and (e).
   1-16        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.