By Nixon                                          S.B. No. 34
       74R12527 RJA-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to improving the judicial system in Panola County.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Effective January 1, 1996, Sections 25.1851 and
    1-5  25.1852, Government Code, are repealed.
    1-6        SECTION 2.  (a)  Not later than December 15, 1995, the judge
    1-7  of the Panola County Court at Law shall transfer all cases pending
    1-8  in the court to a justice court, the county court, or the district
    1-9  court, as appropriate.
   1-10        (b)  When a case is transferred from one court to another as
   1-11  provided by Subsection (a) of this section, all processes, writs,
   1-12  bonds, recognizances, or other obligations issued from the
   1-13  transferring court are returnable to the court to which the case is
   1-14  transferred as if originally issued by that court.  The obligees in
   1-15  all bonds and recognizances taken in and for a court from which a
   1-16  case is transferred, and all witnesses summoned to appear in a
   1-17  court from which a case is transferred, are required to appear
   1-18  before the court to which the case is transferred as if originally
   1-19  required to appear before the court to which the transfer is made.
   1-20        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-21        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-22  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-23  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-24  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-1  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.