By Gallego                                            H.B. No. 3073
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to certain procedures concerning the writ powers of the
    1-3  courts of appeals.
    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 in the
   1-13  capacity of a magistrate at a court of inquiry pursuant to Chapter
   1-14  52, Code of Criminal Procedure, in the court of appeals district.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  The change is law made by Section 22.221(b),
   1-16  Government Code, as amended by this Act, applies only to a case
   1-17  commenced on or after the effective date of this Act.  A case
   1-18  commenced before the effective date of this Act is governed by the
   1-19  law in effect when the case is commenced, and the former law is
   1-20  continued in effect for that purpose.
   1-21        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-22        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.