By:  Munoz                                            H.B. No. 1929
       73R5849 MWV-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the private practice of law by a judge of a statutory
    1-3  county court of Hidalgo County.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 25.1102(k), Government Code, is amended
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7        (k)  A judge of a county court at law may engage in the
    1-8  private practice of law.  This subsection expires January 1, 2005
    1-9  <1995>.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  Notwithstanding Section 4, Chapter 1135, Acts of
   1-11  the 71st Legislature, Regular Session, 1989, Section 25.1102(l),
   1-12  Government Code, as added by that Act, takes effect January 1,
   1-13  2005.
   1-14        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-15  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-16  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-17  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-18  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.