1-1 By: Wentworth S.B. No. 1062 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 senior justice of the supreme court signing court 1-9 documents for the chief justice. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 22, Government Code, is 1-12 amended by adding Section 22.014 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 22.014. SENIOR JUSTICE ACTING FOR CHIEF JUSTICE. In 1-14 the chief justice's absence, the justice with the most seniority on 1-15 the supreme court may sign a court document for the chief justice 1-16 if the chief justice has given that justice written authorization. 1-17 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-23 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-24 * * * * *