By Hilbert H.B. No. 1809 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to electronic service of a subpoena in certain counties. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter 24, Code of Criminal Procedure, is 1-5 amended by adding Article 24.041 to read as follows: 1-6 Art. 24.041. ELECTRONIC SERVICE IN CERTAIN COUNTIES. In a 1-7 county with a population of more than 1.8 million, a subpoena may 1-8 be served by electronic transmission with electronic acknowledgment 1-9 from the witness that the information has been received. 1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.