1-1 By: Naishtat (Senate Sponsor - Henderson) H.B. No. 2028 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 favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 26, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the conduct of masters appointed to preside over 1-9 certain mental health hearings. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 574.025(c), Health and Safety Code, is 1-12 amended to read as follows: 1-13 (c) The hearing shall be held before a magistrate or, at the 1-14 discretion of the presiding judge, before a master appointed by the 1-15 presiding judge. Notwithstanding any other law or requirement, a 1-16 master appointed to conduct a hearing under this section may 1-17 practice law in the court the master serves. The master is 1-18 entitled to reasonable compensation. 1-19 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-24 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-25 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-26 * * * * *