1-1 By: Thompson (Senate Sponsor - Henderson) H.B. No. 2096
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 10, 1995;
1-3 April 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; May 3, 1995, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 3, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the appointment of a special judge to preside in a
1-9 justice court in Harris County.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 75.404(e), Government Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 (e) If a justice of the peace in Harris County is absent or
1-14 for any reason unable to preside, the presiding judge may appoint a
1-15 former justice of the peace or a former county court, statutory
1-16 county court, or district court judge who served as a judge
1-17 <justice of the peace> in this state and who consents to the
1-18 appointment as a special judge to preside for the justice of the
1-19 peace. The presiding judge may designate the duration of the
1-20 appointment, not to exceed 60 days, and may revoke an appointment
1-21 at any time. The qualifications, duties, and powers of a special
1-22 judge are the same as for the regular justice of the peace.
1-23 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-28 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-29 passage, and it is so enacted.
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