By:  Wilson                                           H.B. No. 2040
       73R6621 DLF-F
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to a legislative continuance from appeals of certain
    1-3  administrative proceedings.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 30.003, Civil Practice and Remedies Code,
    1-6  is amended by amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (g) to
    1-7  read as follows:
    1-8        (a)  Except as provided by Subsection (g), this <This>
    1-9  section applies to any criminal or civil suit, including matters of
   1-10  probate, and to any matters ancillary to the suit that require
   1-11  action by or the attendance of an attorney, including appeals but
   1-12  excluding temporary restraining orders.
   1-13        (g)  This section does not apply to an appeal of a decision
   1-14  made in a contested case conducted under the Administrative
   1-15  Procedure and Texas Register Act (Article 6252-13a, Vernon's Texas
   1-16  Civil Statutes) if the continuance is sought by a member of the
   1-17  legislature who is a party to the appeal.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
   1-19  applies only to an application for a continuance filed on or after
   1-20  the effective date of this Act.  An application for a continuance
   1-21  filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law
   1-22  in effect at the time the application is filed and that law is
   1-23  continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-24        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-1  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-2  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-3  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-4  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.