By:  Henderson                                        S.B. No. 1431
       73R7803 MWV-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to approval of assignment of certain visiting judges.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 74.060, Government Code, is amended by
    1-5  adding Subsections (c) and (d) to read as follows:
    1-6        (c)  An active judge may not be assigned to a district court
    1-7  that does not give preference or priority to certain matters unless
    1-8  the judge has been approved by a majority of the judges of the
    1-9  district courts in the county that do not give preference or
   1-10  priority to certain matters.
   1-11        (d)  An active judge may not be assigned to a district court
   1-12  that gives preference or priority to certain matters unless the
   1-13  judge has been approved by a majority of the judges of the district
   1-14  courts in the county that give preference or priority to the same
   1-15  matters to which the district court the judge is assigned to gives
   1-16  preference or priority.  An active judge may not be assigned to a
   1-17  family district court unless the judge has been approved by a
   1-18  majority of the judges of family district courts in the county.  An
   1-19  active judge may not be assigned to a criminal district court
   1-20  unless the judge has been approved by a majority of the judges of
   1-21  criminal district courts in the county.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
   1-23  applies only to an assignment of a judge under Chapter 74,
   1-24  Government Code, made on or after that date.  An assignment made
    2-1  before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
    2-2  effect on the date of assignment, and that law is continued in
    2-3  effect for that purpose.
    2-4        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-5  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-6  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-7  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-8  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.