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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