By Cuellar of Webb H.B. No. 1552
74R5634 MLR-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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. The clerk shall keep a separate file
1-12 docket, known as the Clerk's Criminal File Docket, for criminal
1-13 cases and a separate file docket, known as the Clerk's Tax Suit
1-14 Docket, for tax suits. Each tax suit shall be assigned and
1-15 docketed in the 49th District Court. The clerk shall number the
1-16 cases on the Clerk's Tax Suit Docket consecutively with a separate
1-17 series of numbers and shall number the cases on the Clerk's
1-18 Criminal File Docket consecutively with a separate series of
1-19 numbers.
1-20 SECTION 2. 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.