1-1  By:  Henderson, Haley                                  S.B. No. 596
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 3, 1993; March 4, 1993, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
    1-4  March 16, 1993, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
    1-5  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 16, 1993,
    1-6  sent to printer.)
    1-7                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-8                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-9        Henderson          x                               
   1-10        Harris of Tarrant  x                               
   1-11        Brown              x                               
   1-12        Harris of Dallas   x                               
   1-13        Luna               x                               
   1-14        Parker             x                               
   1-15        West               x                               
   1-16  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 596                By:  Henderson
   1-17                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-18                                AN ACT
   1-19  relating to the requirement that the chief justice deliver a state
   1-20  of the judiciary message to the legislature.
   1-21        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-22        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 21.004, Government Code,
   1-23  is amended to read as follows:
   1-24        (a)  At a convenient time at the commencement of each regular
   1-25  session of the legislature, the chief justice of the supreme court
   1-26  shall deliver a written or oral state of the judiciary message
   1-27  evaluating the accessibility of the courts to the citizens of the
   1-28  state and the future directions and needs of the courts of the
   1-29  state.
   1-30        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-31        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-32  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-33  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-34  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-35  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-37                                                         Austin,
   1-38  Texas
   1-39                                                         March 16, 1993
   1-40  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-41  President of the Senate
   1-42  Sir:
   1-43  We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred S.B. No.
   1-44  596, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to
   1-45  report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do not
   1-46  pass, but that the Committee Substitute adopted in lieu thereof do
   1-47  pass and be printed.
   1-48                                                         Henderson,
   1-49  Chairman
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   1-51                               WITNESSES
   1-52  No witnesses appeared on S.B. on 596.