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.