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.
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   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
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   1-43                               WITNESSES
   1-44  No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 1779.