By Munoz H.B. No. 81
74R299 MWV-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the private practice of law by a judge of a statutory
1-3 county court of Hidalgo County.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 25.1102(l), Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (l) A judge of a county court at law may <not> engage in the
1-8 private practice of law, except that a judge of a statutory county
1-9 court in Hidalgo County and any attorney of a law firm or other
1-10 organization of attorneys in which the judge is a staff attorney,
1-11 associate, partner, shareholder, member, of counsel, employee, or
1-12 consultant, or holds a similar position, may not practice law in a
1-13 statutory county court in Hidalgo County. This subsection expires
1-14 January 1, 2005.
1-15 SECTION 2. Effective January 1, 2005, Section 25.1102,
1-16 Government Code, is amended by adding Subsection (m) to read as
1-17 follows:
1-18 (m) A judge of a county court at law may not engage in the
1-19 private practice of law.
1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.