By Cuellar of Webb, et al. H.B. No. 1180
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to assignment and docketing of certain cases in the 49th
1-3 District Court.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 24.151(f), Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (f) In Webb County, the clerk of the district courts shall
1-8 file all civil cases, except tax suits, on the Clerk's Civil File
1-9 Docket and shall number the cases consecutively. Each civil and
1-10 criminal case, except tax suits, shall be assigned and docketed at
1-11 random by the district clerk <in the court designated by the
1-12 attorney filing the case>. The clerk shall keep a separate file
1-13 docket, known as the Clerk's Criminal File Docket, for criminal
1-14 cases and a separate file docket, known as the Clerk's Tax Suit
1-15 Docket, for tax suits. Each <criminal case and> tax suit shall be
1-16 assigned and docketed in the 49th District Court. The clerk shall
1-17 number the cases on the Clerk's Tax Suit Docket consecutively with
1-18 a separate series of numbers and shall number the cases on the
1-19 Clerk's Criminal File Docket consecutively with a separate series
1-20 of numbers.
1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.