1-1  By:  Leedom                                            S.B. No. 165
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed January 4, 1995; January 17, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
    1-4  February 14, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas
    1-5  7, Nays 0; February 14, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to a certification of willingness not to appear and plead
    1-9  as an attorney in court by certain retired and former judges.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 74.0551, Government Code,
   1-12  is amended to read as follows:
   1-13        (b)  <A retired or former judge shall make an initial
   1-14  certification of willingness not to appear and plead not later than
   1-15  the 90th day after the date the person leaves active service.>  An
   1-16  initial certification of willingness not to appear and plead made
   1-17  before the judge leaves active service extends through December 31
   1-18  of the year following the year in which the judge leaves active
   1-19  service.  An initial certification made after the judge leaves
   1-20  active service extends through December 31 of the year following
   1-21  the year in which the certification is made.
   1-22        SECTION 2.  The changes in law made by this Act relating to a
   1-23  retired or former judge's initial certification of willingness not
   1-24  to appear and serve as an attorney in court apply to a judge
   1-25  regardless of whether the judge left active service before, on, or
   1-26  after the effective date of this Act.
   1-27        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-28  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-29  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-30  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-31  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-32  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-33  passage, and it is so enacted.
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