H.B. No. 1552
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the assignment and docketing of certain cases by the
1-3 district clerk of Webb County.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 24.151(f), Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 (f) In Webb County, the clerk of the district courts shall
1-8 file all civil cases, except tax suits, on the Clerk's Civil File
1-9 Docket and shall number the cases consecutively. Each civil <and
1-10 criminal> case, except tax suits, shall be assigned and docketed at
1-11 random by the district clerk according to the following
1-12 percentages: 49th District Court, 20 percent; 111th District
1-13 Court, 60 percent; and the 341st District Court, 20 percent. The
1-14 clerk shall keep a separate file docket, known as the Clerk's
1-15 Criminal File Docket, for criminal cases and a separate file
1-16 docket, known as the Clerk's Tax Suit Docket, for tax suits. Each
1-17 tax suit shall be assigned and docketed in the 49th District Court.
1-18 The clerk shall number the cases on the Clerk's Tax Suit Docket
1-19 consecutively with a separate series of numbers and shall number
1-20 the cases on the Clerk's Criminal File Docket consecutively with a
1-21 separate series of numbers.
1-22 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 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.