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.
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