By:  Montford                                          S.B. No. 827
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to an emergency appropriation to the Texas Judicial
    1-2  Council, Office of Court Administration for the travel expenses of
    1-3  justices of courts of appeals to hear transferred cases.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  In addition to amounts previously appropriated to
    1-6  the Office of Court Administration in Item 2.  Equalization of the
    1-7  Courts of Appeals Dockets by House Bill No. 1, 72nd Legislature,
    1-8  First Called Session, for the current fiscal year, the sum of
    1-9  $21,000 is appropriated for the two-year period beginning on the
   1-10  effective date of this Act, from the general revenue fund to the
   1-11  Office of Court Administration for the travel expenses of justices
   1-12  of courts of appeals to hear transferred cases.
   1-13        SECTION 2.  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,
   1-18  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-19  passage, and it is so enacted.