By: Carriker S.B. No. 169 73R3148 JSA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to venue for redistricting suits. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 15, Civil Practice and 1-5 Remedies Code, is amended by adding Section 15.018 to read as 1-6 follows: 1-7 Sec. 15.018. STATE REDISTRICTING SUITS. An action 1-8 challenging the validity of all or part of a redistricting measure 1-9 for the Texas Senate, Texas House of Representatives, United States 1-10 House of Representatives, or any state board, commission, or court 1-11 with statewide jurisdiction, or an action relating to the process 1-12 by which one of those redistricting measures is formulated or 1-13 adopted, shall be brought in Travis County. 1-14 SECTION 2. An action pending on the effective date of this 1-15 Act that, if brought after the effective date would be required to 1-16 be brought in Travis County under Section 15.018, Civil Practice 1-17 and Remedies Code, as added by this Act, shall be transferred to a 1-18 court of competent jurisdiction in Travis County immediately after 1-19 this Act takes effect unless the trial on the merits in that action 1-20 has commenced before this Act takes effect. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-3 passage, and it is so enacted.