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  Section 24.491, Government Code, is repealed.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.