S.B. No. 1061 AN ACT 1-1 relating to the authority of the supreme court to issue certain 1-2 writs. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Subsections (a) and (b), Section 22.002, 1-5 Government Code, are amended to read as follows: 1-6 (a) The supreme court or a justice of the supreme court may 1-7 issue writs of procedendo and certiorari and all writs of quo 1-8 warranto and mandamus agreeable to the principles of law regulating 1-9 those writs, against a statutory county court judge, a statutory 1-10 probate court judge, a district judge, a court of appeals or a 1-11 justice of a court of appeals, or any officer of state government 1-12 except the governor, the court of criminal appeals, or a judge of 1-13 the court of criminal appeals. 1-14 (b) The supreme court or, in vacation, a justice of the 1-15 supreme court may issue a writ of mandamus to compel a statutory 1-16 county court judge, a statutory probate court judge, or a district 1-17 judge to proceed to trial and judgment in a case agreeable to the 1-18 principles and usages of law, returnable to the supreme court on or 1-19 before the first day of the term, or during the session of the 1-20 term, or before any justice of the supreme court as the nature of 1-21 the case requires. 1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.