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.