1-1  By:  Gallego (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini)             H.B. No. 1031
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House March 25, 1993;
    1-3  March 30, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Jurisprudence; April 13, 1993, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 13, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Henderson          x                               
    1-9        Harris of Tarrant  x                               
   1-10        Brown              x                               
   1-11        Harris of Dallas   x                               
   1-12        Luna               x                               
   1-13        Parker                                         x   
   1-14        West               x                               
   1-15                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-16                                AN ACT
   1-17  relating to expenses of the court reporter for the 112th Judicial
   1-18  District.
   1-19        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-20        SECTION 1.  Sections 52.057(a) and (b), Government Code, are
   1-21  amended to read as follows:
   1-22        (a)  Notwithstanding Section 52.055, the expenses of the
   1-23  official court reporters for the 31st, 46th, 104th, 112th, and
   1-24  155th judicial districts shall be reimbursed as prescribed by this
   1-25  section.
   1-26        (b)  The official court reporters <reporter> for the 31st and
   1-27  112th judicial districts are <Judicial District is> entitled to
   1-28  receive travel expense allowances in the same amounts as a state
   1-29  employee.  The allowances <allowance> shall be paid as prescribed
   1-30  by Sections 52.055(c) and (e).
   1-31        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-32        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-33  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-34  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-35  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-36  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-38                                                         Austin,
   1-39  Texas
   1-40                                                         April 13, 1993
   1-41  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-42  President of the Senate
   1-43  Sir:
   1-44  We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred H.B.
   1-45  No. 1031, have had the same under consideration, and I am
   1-46  instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
   1-47  that it do pass and be printed.
   1-48                                                         Henderson,
   1-49  Chairman
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   1-51                               WITNESSES
   1-52  No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 1031.