By Lewis of Tarrant                                   H.B. No. 2071
       74R7509 MWV-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to objection to a visiting judge.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 74.053(b), Government Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        (b)  If a party to a civil or criminal case files a timely
    1-7  objection to the assignment, the judge shall not hear the case.
    1-8  Except as provided by Subsection (d), each party to the case is
    1-9  only entitled to one objection under this section for that case.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and
   1-11  applies only to the assignment of a judge or justice made on or
   1-12  after the effective date of this Act.  An assignment made before
   1-13  the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at
   1-14  the time the assignment was made, and that law is continued in
   1-15  effect for that purpose.
   1-16        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-17  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-18  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-19  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-20  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.