By Craddick H.B. No. 768
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to statutory court judges and district judges exchanging
1-3 benches and transferring cases.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 74.121(b), Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (b) Subject to the agreement of all parties, in matters of
1-8 concurrent jurisdiction, a judge of a statutory county court and a
1-9 judge of a district court in a county may exchange benches and
1-10 courtrooms with each other and may transfer cases between their
1-11 dockets in the same manner that judges of district courts exchange
1-12 benches and transfer cases under Section 24.303. <The judge of a
1-13 statutory county court may transfer a case to the docket of the
1-14 district court, except that a case may not be transferred without
1-15 the consent of the judge of the court to which it is being
1-16 transferred and may not be transferred unless it is within the
1-17 jurisdiction of the court to which it is transferred.>
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.