By Wentworth S.B. No. 1061 74R6665 MWV-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the authority of the supreme court to issue certain 1-3 writs. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Sections 22.002(a) and (b), Government Code, are 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (a) The supreme court or a justice of the supreme court may 1-8 issue writs of procedendo and certiorari and all writs of quo 1-9 warranto and mandamus agreeable to the principles of law regulating 1-10 those writs, against a statutory county court judge, a statutory 1-11 probate court judge, a district judge, a court of appeals or a 1-12 justice of a court of appeals, or any officer of state government 1-13 except the governor, the court of criminal appeals, or a judge of 1-14 the court of criminal appeals. 1-15 (b) The supreme court or, in vacation, a justice of the 1-16 supreme court may issue a writ of mandamus to compel a statutory 1-17 county court judge, a statutory probate court judge, or a district 1-18 judge to proceed to trial and judgment in a case agreeable to the 1-19 principles and usages of law, returnable to the supreme court on or 1-20 before the first day of the term, or during the session of the 1-21 term, or before any justice of the supreme court as the nature of 1-22 the case requires. 1-23 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995. 1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.