By: Sadler H.B. No. 1923
73R6282 JSA-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the composition of the court of appeals districts.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Sections 22.201(b), (f), (g), (m), and (o),
1-5 Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) The First Court of Appeals District is composed of the
1-7 counties of Austin, Brazoria, <Brazos,> Burleson, Chambers,
1-8 Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston, Grimes, Harris, Trinity, Walker,
1-9 Waller, and Washington.
1-10 (f) The Fifth Court of Appeals District is composed of the
1-11 counties of Collin, Dallas, Grayson, Hunt, and <Kaufman,>
1-12 Rockwall<, and Van Zandt>.
1-13 (g) The Sixth Court of Appeals District is composed of the
1-14 counties of Bowie, Camp, Cass, Delta, Fannin, Franklin, Gregg,
1-15 Harrison, Hopkins, <Hunt,> Lamar, Marion, Morris, Panola, Rains,
1-16 Red River, Rusk, Titus, Upshur, and Wood.
1-17 (m) The Twelfth Court of Appeals District is composed of the
1-18 counties of Anderson, Cherokee, <Gregg,> Henderson, <Hopkins,>
1-19 Houston, Kaufman, Nacogdoches, <Panola, Rains, Rusk,> Sabine, San
1-20 Augustine, Shelby, Smith, and <Upshur,> Van Zandt<, and Wood>.
1-21 (o) The Fourteenth Court of Appeals District is composed of
1-22 the counties of Austin, Brazoria, <Brazos,> Burleson, Chambers,
1-23 Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston, Grimes, Harris, Trinity, Walker,
1-24 Waller, and Washington.
2-1 SECTION 2. This Act does not affect the jurisdiction on
2-2 appeal of any case from a county that is transferred by this Act to
2-3 a different court of appeals district if the transcripts for the
2-4 case were filed before the effective date of this Act in the
2-5 appropriate court of appeals district.
2-6 SECTION 3. This Act does not affect the term of a justice of
2-7 a court of appeals elected or appointed before the effective date
2-8 of this Act. Justices shall be elected from court of appeals
2-9 districts as changed by this Act for each regular term that begins
2-10 after the effective date and at each election held after the
2-11 effective date to fill a vacancy in the office of justice of a
2-12 court of appeals.
2-13 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
2-14 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.