1-1 By: Craddick (Senate Sponsor - Bivins) H.B. No. 768
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1995;
1-3 May 9, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; May 16, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the
1-5 following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 1; May 16, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Henderson
1-7 Amend H.B. 768 by adding the following sections and renumbering
1-8 accordingly:
1-9 SECTION 2. Section 24.195, Government Code, is amended to
1-10 read as follows:
1-11 Sec. 24.195. 93RD JUDICIAL DISTRICT (HIDALGO COUNTY).
1-12 (a) The 93rd Judicial District is composed of Hidalgo County.
1-13 (b) The 93rd District Court shall give preference to all
1-14 cases and proceedings under Title 3, Family Code. The 93rd
1-15 District Court is a family district court.
1-16 (c) The terms of the 93rd District Court begin on the first
1-17 Mondays in January and July.
1-18 (d) <(c)> Section 24.194, relating to the 92nd District
1-19 Court, contains provisions applicable to both that court and the
1-20 93rd District Court.
1-21 SECTION 3. Subsection (a), Section 24.209, Government Code,
1-22 is amended to read as follows:
1-23 (a) The 107th Judicial District is composed of Cameron and
1-24 Willacy counties. The court shall give preference to all
1-25 <criminal> cases and proceedings under Title 3, Family Code. The
1-26 107th District Court is a family district court.
1-27 SECTION 3. Subsection (a), Section 24.240, Government Code,
1-28 is amended to read as follows:
1-29 (a) The 138th Judicial District is composed of Cameron and
1-30 Willacy counties. The court shall give preference to all
1-31 <criminal> cases and proceedings under the Family Code. The 138th
1-32 District Court is a family district court.
1-33 SECTION 4. Section 24.385, Government Code, is amended to
1-34 read as follows:
1-35 Sec. 24.385. 206TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (HIDALGO COUNTY).
1-36 (a) The 206th Judicial District is composed of Hidalgo County.
1-37 (b) The 206th District Court shall give preference to all
1-38 criminal cases. The 206th District Court is the criminal district
1-39 court for Hidalgo County.
1-40 SECTION 5. Section 24.452, Government Code, is amended to
1-41 read as follows:
1-42 Sec. 24.452. 275TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (HIDALGO COUNTY).
1-43 (A) The 275th Judicial District is composed of Hidalgo County.
1-44 (b) The 275th District Court shall give preference to all
1-45 cases and proceedings under the Family Code. The 275th District
1-46 Court is a family district court.
1-47 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-48 AN ACT
1-49 relating to statutory court judges and district judges exchanging
1-50 benches and transferring cases.
1-51 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-52 SECTION 1. Section 74.121(b), Government Code, is amended to
1-53 read as follows:
1-54 (b) Subject to the agreement of all parties, in matters of
1-55 concurrent jurisdiction, a judge of a statutory county court and a
1-56 judge of a district court in a county may exchange benches and
1-57 courtrooms with each other and may transfer cases between their
1-58 dockets in the same manner that judges of district courts exchange
1-59 benches and transfer cases under Section 24.303. <The judge of a
1-60 statutory county court may transfer a case to the docket of the
1-61 district court, except that a case may not be transferred without
1-62 the consent of the judge of the court to which it is being
1-63 transferred and may not be transferred unless it is within the
1-64 jurisdiction of the court to which it is transferred.>
1-65 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-66 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-67 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-68 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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