By: Whitmire S.B. No. 763 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to hearings on inmate pro se cases. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Chapter 30, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, is 1-4 amended by adding Section 30.007 to read as follows: 1-5 Section 30.007. Proceedings in Inmate Litigation. 1-6 In civil claims in which an inmate of the Texas Department of 1-7 Criminal Justice-Institutional Division is a party, trial courts 1-8 may: 1-9 (a) conduct any proceedings at the prison unit or in the 1-10 county in which the inmate is confined or at which more than one 1-11 witness resides or works; and 1-12 (b) sign or enter any order pertaining to such proceedings. 1-13 This section extends to proceedings in multi-county districts 1-14 as provided for in Section 24.017 of the Government Code. 1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.