1-1  By:  Cuellar of Webb, et al.                          H.B. No. 1180
    1-2       (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini)
    1-3        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 5, 1993;
    1-4  April 5, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-5  Jurisprudence; April 20, 1993, reported favorably by the following
    1-6  vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 20, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-7                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-8                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-9        Henderson          x                               
   1-10        Harris of Tarrant  x                               
   1-11        Brown              x                               
   1-12        Harris of Dallas   x                               
   1-13        Luna                                          x    
   1-14        Parker                                        x    
   1-15        West               x                               
   1-16                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-17                                AN ACT
   1-18  relating to assignment and docketing of certain cases in the 49th
   1-19  District Court.
   1-20        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-21        SECTION 1.  Section 24.151(f), Government Code, is amended to
   1-22  read as follows:
   1-23        (f)  In Webb County, the clerk of the district courts shall
   1-24  file all civil cases, except tax suits, on the Clerk's Civil File
   1-25  Docket and shall number the cases consecutively.  Each civil and
   1-26  criminal case, except tax suits, shall be assigned and docketed at
   1-27  random by the district clerk <in the court designated by the
   1-28  attorney filing the case>.  The clerk shall keep a separate file
   1-29  docket, known as the Clerk's Criminal File Docket, for criminal
   1-30  cases and a separate file docket, known as the Clerk's Tax Suit
   1-31  Docket, for tax suits.  Each <criminal case and> tax suit shall be
   1-32  assigned and docketed in the 49th District Court.  The clerk shall
   1-33  number the cases on the Clerk's Tax Suit Docket consecutively with
   1-34  a separate series of numbers and shall number the cases on the
   1-35  Clerk's Criminal File Docket consecutively with a separate series
   1-36  of numbers.
   1-37        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-38  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-39  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-40  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-41  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-43                                                         Austin,
   1-44  Texas
   1-45                                                         April 20, 1993
   1-46  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-47  President of the Senate
   1-48  Sir:
   1-49  We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred H.B.
   1-50  No. 1180, have had the same under consideration, and I am
   1-51  instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
   1-52  that it do pass and be printed.
   1-53                                                         Henderson,
   1-54  Chairman
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   1-56                               WITNESSES
   1-57  No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 1180.