74R9073 MLR-F
          By Gallego                                            H.B. No. 3073
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the power of the courts of appeals to issue writs of
    1-3  mandamus.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 22.221(b), Government Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (b)  Each court of appeals for a court of appeals district
    1-8  may issue all writs of mandamus, agreeable to the principles of law
    1-9  regulating those writs, against a:
   1-10              (1)  judge of a district or county court in the court
   1-11  of appeals district; or
   1-12              (2)  judge of a district court who is acting as a
   1-13  magistrate at a court of inquiry under Chapter 52, Code of Criminal
   1-14  Procedure, in the court of appeals district.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a proceeding seeking a
   1-16  writ of mandamus filed in a court of appeals under Section 22.221,
   1-17  Government Code, on or after the effective date of this Act.  A
   1-18  proceeding seeking a writ of mandamus filed under that section
   1-19  before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it
   1-20  existed on the date of the filing of the application or the motion
   1-21  for leave to file, and the former law is continued in effect for
   1-22  that purpose.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-1        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.