1-1  By:  Cuellar of Webb (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini)     H.B. No. 1552
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 3, 1995;
    1-3  April 4, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Jurisprudence; April 26, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable
    1-5  Committee Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0;
    1-6  April 26, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-7  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 1552                    By:  Luna
    1-8                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-9                                AN ACT
   1-10  relating to the assignment and docketing of certain cases by the
   1-11  district clerk of Webb County.
   1-12        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-13        SECTION 1.  Section 24.151(f), Government Code, is amended to
   1-14  read as follows:
   1-15        (f)  In Webb County, the clerk of the district courts shall
   1-16  file all civil cases, except tax suits, on the Clerk's Civil File
   1-17  Docket and shall number the cases consecutively.  Each civil <and
   1-18  criminal> case, except tax suits, shall be assigned and docketed at
   1-19  random by the district clerk according to the following
   1-20  percentages:  49th District Court, 20 percent; 111th District
   1-21  Court, 60 percent; and the 341st District Court, 20 percent.  The
   1-22  clerk shall keep a separate file docket, known as the Clerk's
   1-23  Criminal File Docket, for criminal cases and a separate file
   1-24  docket, known as the Clerk's Tax Suit Docket, for tax suits.  Each
   1-25  tax suit shall be assigned and docketed in the 49th District Court.
   1-26  The clerk shall number the cases on the Clerk's Tax Suit Docket
   1-27  consecutively with a separate series of numbers and shall number
   1-28  the cases on the Clerk's Criminal File Docket consecutively with a
   1-29  separate series of numbers.
   1-30        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-31  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-32  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-33  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-34  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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