74R9704 MWV-D
          By Munoz                                              H.B. No. 3181
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the private practice of law by a judge of a statutory
    1-3  county court of Hidalgo County.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 25.1102(l), Government Code, is amended
    1-6  to read as follows:
    1-7        (l)  A judge of a county court at law may <not> engage in the
    1-8  private practice of law, except that a judge of a county court at
    1-9  law may not engage in the private practice of law in a state,
   1-10  county, or municipal court.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  Section 25.1102, Government Code, is amended by
   1-12  adding Subsection (m) to read as follows:
   1-13        (m)  Subsection (l) and this subsection expire January 1,
   1-14  2005.
   1-15        SECTION 3.  Effective January 1, 2005, Section 25.1102,
   1-16  Government Code, is amended by adding Subsection (n) to read as
   1-17  follows:
   1-18        (n)  A judge of a county court at law may not engage in the
   1-19  private practice of law.
   1-20        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-21  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-22  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-23  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-24  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.