By Armbrister S.B. No. 669
74R5527 MLR-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the organization of the district courts in Colorado,
1-3 Gonzales, Guadalupe, and Lavaca counties and the office of district
1-4 attorney for the 25th Judicial District.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. Section 24.126, Government Code, is amended to
1-7 read as follows:
1-8 Sec. 24.126. 25TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (<COLORADO, GONZALES,>
1-9 GUADALUPE COUNTY <, AND LAVACA COUNTIES>). (a) The 25th Judicial
1-10 District is composed of <Colorado, Gonzales,> Guadalupe County<,
1-11 and Lavaca counties>.
1-12 (b) <The 25th District Court has concurrent jurisdiction
1-13 with the Second 25th District Court.>
1-14 <(c)> The terms of the 25th District Court begin<:>
1-15 <(1) in Colorado County on the first Mondays in
1-16 February and September;>
1-17 <(2) in Gonzales County on the first Mondays in
1-18 January and June;>
1-19 <(3) in Guadalupe County> on the first Mondays in
1-20 March and October<; and>
1-21 <(4) in Lavaca County on the first Mondays in April
1-22 and November>.
1-23 <(d) The judges of the 25th and Second 25th judicial
1-24 districts may hear and dispose of any suit or proceeding on either
2-1 court's docket without transferring the suit or proceeding. The
2-2 judges may transfer cases from one court to the other by an order
2-3 entered on the docket of the court from which the matter was
2-4 transferred. A case may not be transferred without the permission
2-5 of the judge of the court to which the case is to be transferred.>
2-6 SECTION 2. Section 24.127, Government Code, is amended to
2-7 read as follows:
2-8 Sec. 24.127. SECOND 25TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (COLORADO,
2-9 GONZALES, <GUADALUPE,> AND LAVACA COUNTIES). (a) The Second 25th
2-10 Judicial District is composed of Colorado, Gonzales, <Guadalupe,>
2-11 and Lavaca counties.
2-12 (b) The terms of the Second 25th District Court begin:
2-13 (1) in Colorado County on the first Mondays in April
2-14 and November;
2-15 (2) in Gonzales County on the first Mondays in May and
2-16 December; and
2-17 (3) <in Guadalupe County on the first Mondays in
2-18 February and September; and>
2-19 <(4)> in Lavaca County on the first Mondays in January
2-20 and June.
2-21 <(c) Section 24.126, relating to the 25th District Court,
2-22 contains provisions applicable to both that court and the Second
2-23 25th District Court.>
2-24 SECTION 3. Section 43.112, Government Code, is amended to
2-25 read as follows:
2-26 Sec. 43.112. 25TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT. (a) The voters of
2-27 Colorado, Gonzales, Guadalupe, and Lavaca counties elect a district
3-1 attorney for the 25th Judicial District <elect a district
3-2 attorney>.
3-3 (b) The district attorney for the 25th Judicial District
3-4 also acts as district attorney for the Second 25th Judicial
3-5 District in Colorado, Gonzales, and Lavaca counties.
3-6 SECTION 4. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
3-7 (b) The local administrative district judge shall transfer
3-8 all cases from Colorado, Gonzales, and Lavaca counties that are
3-9 pending in the 25th District Court on the effective date of this
3-10 Act to the Second 25th District Court.
3-11 (c) The local administrative district judge shall transfer
3-12 all cases from Guadalupe County that are pending in the Second 25th
3-13 District Court on the effective date of this Act to the 25th
3-14 District Court.
3-15 (d) When a case is transferred from one court to another as
3-16 provided by Subsection (b) or (c) of this section, all processes,
3-17 writs, bonds, recognizances, or other obligations issued from the
3-18 transferring court are returnable to the court to which the case is
3-19 transferred as if originally issued by that court. The obligees in
3-20 all bonds and recognizances taken in and for a court from which a
3-21 case is transferred, and all witnesses summoned to appear in a
3-22 court from which a case is transferred, are required to appear
3-23 before the court to which a case is transferred as if originally
3-24 required to appear before the court to which the transfer is made.
3-25 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
3-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
3-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
4-1 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
4-2 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.