1-1  By:  Wentworth                                        S.B. No. 1061
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 9, 1995; March 9, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
    1-4  April 4, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
    1-5  Nays 0; April 4, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to the authority of the supreme court to issue certain
    1-9  writs.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Subsections (a) and (b), Section 22.002,
   1-12  Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
   1-13        (a)  The supreme court or a justice of the supreme court may
   1-14  issue writs of procedendo and certiorari and all writs of quo
   1-15  warranto and mandamus agreeable to the principles of law regulating
   1-16  those writs, against a statutory county court judge, a statutory
   1-17  probate court judge, a district judge, a court of appeals or a
   1-18  justice of a court of appeals, or any officer of state government
   1-19  except the governor, the court of criminal appeals, or a judge of
   1-20  the court of criminal appeals.
   1-21        (b)  The supreme court or, in vacation, a justice of the
   1-22  supreme court may issue a writ of mandamus to compel a statutory
   1-23  county court judge, a statutory probate court judge, or a district
   1-24  judge to proceed to trial and judgment in a case agreeable to the
   1-25  principles and usages of law, returnable to the supreme court on or
   1-26  before the first day of the term, or during the session of the
   1-27  term, or before any justice of the supreme court as the nature of
   1-28  the case requires.
   1-29        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-30        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-31  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-32  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-33  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-34  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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