By:  Wentworth                                        S.B. No. 1061
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        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.