By:  Henderson, Haley                                  S.B. No. 596
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the requirement that the chief justice deliver a state
    1-2  of the judiciary message to the legislature.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 21.004, Government Code,
    1-5  is amended to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  At a convenient time at the commencement of each regular
    1-7  session of the legislature, the chief justice of the supreme court
    1-8  shall deliver a written or oral state of the judiciary message
    1-9  evaluating the accessibility of the courts to the citizens of the
   1-10  state and the future directions and needs of the courts of the
   1-11  state.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-13        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.