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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