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. Chapter 33 of the Government Code, is amended by 1-6 adding Section 33.006 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 33.006. EX PARTE COMMUNICATIONS. (a) Members of the 1-8 State Commission on Judicial Conduct are prohibited from any ex 1-9 parte communication with any judge who is the subject of an 1-10 investigation 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 proceeding 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.