1-1 By: Munoz (Senate Sponsor - Lucio) H.B. No. 3181
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 17, 1995;
1-3 May 19, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; May 25, 1995, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 25, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the private practice of law by a judge of a statutory
1-9 county court of Hidalgo County.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 25.1102(l), Government Code, is amended
1-12 to read as follows:
1-13 (l) A judge of a county court at law may <not> engage in the
1-14 private practice of law, except that a judge of a county court at
1-15 law may not engage in the private practice of law in a state,
1-16 county, or municipal court.
1-17 SECTION 2. Section 25.1102, Government Code, is amended by
1-18 adding Subsection (m) to read as follows:
1-19 (m) Subsection (l) and this subsection expire January 1,
1-20 2005.
1-21 SECTION 3. Effective January 1, 2005, Section 25.1102,
1-22 Government Code, is amended by adding Subsection (n) to read as
1-23 follows:
1-24 (n) A judge of a county court at law may not engage in the
1-25 private practice of law.
1-26 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-27 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-28 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-29 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-30 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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