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.
1-42 * * * * *
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
1-55 * * * * *
1-56 WITNESSES
1-57 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 1180.