1-1 By: Gallego (Senate Sponsor - Cain) H.B. No. 3073 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1995; 1-3 May 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Jurisprudence; May 18, 1995, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 18, 1995, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the power of the courts of appeals to issue writs of 1-9 mandamus. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 22.221(b), Government Code, is amended to 1-12 read as follows: 1-13 (b) Each court of appeals for a court of appeals district 1-14 may issue all writs of mandamus, agreeable to the principles of law 1-15 regulating those writs, against a: 1-16 (1) judge of a district or county court in the court 1-17 of appeals district; or 1-18 (2) judge of a district court who is acting as a 1-19 magistrate at a court of inquiry under Chapter 52, Code of Criminal 1-20 Procedure, in the court of appeals district. 1-21 SECTION 2. This Act applies only to a proceeding seeking a 1-22 writ of mandamus filed in a court of appeals under Section 22.221, 1-23 Government Code, on or after the effective date of this Act. A 1-24 proceeding seeking a writ of mandamus filed under that section 1-25 before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law as it 1-26 existed on the date of the filing of the application or the motion 1-27 for leave to file, and the former law is continued in effect for 1-28 that purpose. 1-29 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-30 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-31 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-32 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-33 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-34 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-35 * * * * *