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.