H.B. No. 768 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to statutory court judges and district judges in Midland 1-3 County exchanging 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)(1) The judge of a statutory county court may transfer a 1-8 case to the docket of the district court, except that a case may 1-9 not be transferred without the consent of the judge of the court to 1-10 which it is being transferred and may not be transferred unless it 1-11 is within the jurisdiction of the court to which it is transferred. 1-12 (2) Notwithstanding Subdivision (1), in matters of 1-13 concurrent jurisdiction, a judge of a statutory county court in 1-14 Midland County and a judge of a district court in Midland County 1-15 may exchange benches and courtrooms with each other and may 1-16 transfer cases between their dockets in the same manner that judges 1-17 of district courts exchange benches and transfer cases under 1-18 Section 24.303. 1-19 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 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.