1-1 By: Puente (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth) H.B. No. 1779 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1993; 1-3 April 27, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Jurisprudence; May 11, 1993, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 11, 1993, sent to printer.) 1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE 1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent 1-8 Henderson x 1-9 Harris of Tarrant x 1-10 Brown x 1-11 Harris of Dallas x 1-12 Luna x 1-13 Parker x 1-14 West x 1-15 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-16 AN ACT 1-17 relating to the 225th District Court. 1-18 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-19 SECTION 1. Section 24.403(b), Government Code, is amended to 1-20 read as follows: 1-21 (b) The 225th District Court shall give preference to civil 1-22 cases and to cases and proceedings under Title 2, Family Code. 1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-28 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-29 * * * * * 1-30 Austin, 1-31 Texas 1-32 May 11, 1993 1-33 Hon. Bob Bullock 1-34 President of the Senate 1-35 Sir: 1-36 We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred H.B. 1-37 No. 1779, have had the same under consideration, and I am 1-38 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation 1-39 that it do pass and be printed. 1-40 Henderson, 1-41 Chairman 1-42 * * * * * 1-43 WITNESSES 1-44 No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 1779.