By Craddick H.B. No. 768
74R588 MWV-D
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) In matters of concurrent jurisdiction, a judge of a
1-8 statutory county court and a judge of a district court in a county
1-9 may exchange benches and courtrooms with each other and may
1-10 transfer cases between their dockets in the same manner that judges
1-11 of district courts exchange benches and transfer cases under
1-12 Section 24.303 <The judge of a statutory county court may transfer
1-13 a case to the docket of the district court, except that a case may
1-14 not be transferred without the consent of the judge of the court to
1-15 which it is being transferred and may not be transferred unless it
1-16 is within the jurisdiction of the court to which it is
1-17 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.
1-24 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
2-1 Amend House Bill 768 on page 1, line 7, by striking "In" and
2-2 substituting "Subject to the agreement of all parties, in".
2-3 Thompson