By Gallego                                            H.B. No. 2593
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to ex parte communications by members of the State
    1-3  Commission on Judicial Conduct.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 33, Government Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 33.006 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 33.006.  EX PARTE COMMUNICATIONS.  Members of the State
    1-8  Commission on Judicial Conduct are prohibited from any ex parte
    1-9  communication with any judge who is the subject of an investigation
   1-10  being conducted by the commission.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
   1-12  applies to an investigation of judicial conduct under Chapter 33,
   1-13  Government Code, that is pending on the effective date of this Act,
   1-14  without regard to whether the investigation was commenced before or
   1-15  is commenced on or after the effective date of this Act, and in
   1-16  which, on the effective date of this Act, formal proceedings under
   1-17  Section 33.022(b), Government Code, have not been commenced.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.