By Wentworth                                          S.B. No. 1062
       74R7231 RJA-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the senior justice of the supreme court signing court
    1-3  documents for the chief justice.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 22, Government Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Section 22.014 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 22.014.  SENIOR JUSTICE ACTING FOR CHIEF JUSTICE.  In
    1-8  the chief justice's absence, the justice with the most seniority on
    1-9  the supreme court may sign a court document for the chief justice
   1-10  if the chief justice has given that justice written authorization.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-12  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-13  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-14  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-15  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-16  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-17  passage, and it is so enacted.