1-1  By:  Sadler (Senate Sponsor - Ratliff)                H.B. No. 2844
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 1993;
    1-3  May 13, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Jurisprudence; May 25, 1993, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 25, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Henderson          x                               
    1-9        Harris of Tarrant  x                               
   1-10        Brown              x                               
   1-11        Harris of Dallas   x                               
   1-12        Luna                                           x   
   1-13        Parker             x                               
   1-14        West                                           x   
   1-15                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-16                                AN ACT
   1-17  relating to the Rusk County Court at Law.
   1-18        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-19        SECTION 1.  Section 25.2032(f), Government Code, is amended
   1-20  to read as follows:
   1-21        (f)  The district clerk serves as clerk of the county courts
   1-22  at law in matters of concurrent jurisdiction with the district
   1-23  court <cases enumerated in Subsection (a)(2),> and the county clerk
   1-24  serves as clerk of the county courts at law in all other cases.
   1-25  The commissioners court may employ as many deputy sheriffs and
   1-26  bailiffs as are necessary to serve a court.
   1-27        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-28        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-29  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-30  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-31  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-32  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-34                                                         Austin,
   1-35  Texas
   1-36                                                         May 25, 1993
   1-37  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-38  President of the Senate
   1-39  Sir:
   1-40  We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred H.B.
   1-41  No. 2844, have had the same under consideration, and I am
   1-42  instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
   1-43  that it do pass and be printed.
   1-44                                                         Henderson,
   1-45  Chairman
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   1-47                               WITNESSES
   1-48  No witnesses appeared on H.B. 2844.