By: D. Jones H.B. No. 1353 73R5937 RJA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the abolition of the 345th Judicial District. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 24.491, Government Code, is repealed. 1-5 SECTION 2. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this 1-6 section, this Act takes effect on the earliest date possible under 1-7 Article III, Section 39, of the Texas Constitution. 1-8 (b) Section 1 of this Act takes effect, and the 345th 1-9 Judicial District is abolished, on the 30th day after the date the 1-10 remaining sections of this Act take effect. 1-11 (c) Not later than the fifth day before the date on which 1-12 Section 1 of this Act will take effect, the judge of the district 1-13 court for the 345th Judicial District shall transfer all cases 1-14 pending in the court to another district court in Travis County. 1-15 (d) When a case is transferred from one court to another as 1-16 provided by Subsection (c) of this section, all processes, writs, 1-17 bonds, recognizances, or other obligations issued from the 1-18 transferring court are returnable to the court to which the case is 1-19 transferred as if originally issued by that court. The obligees in 1-20 all bonds and recognizances taken in and for a court from which a 1-21 case is transferred, and all witnesses summoned to appear in a 1-22 court from which a case is transferred, are required to appear 1-23 before the court to which a case is transferred as if originally 1-24 required to appear before the court to which the transfer is made. 2-1 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-2 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-3 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-4 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-5 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-6 and that this Act take effect and be in force according to its 2-7 terms, and it is so enacted.