S.B. No. 1384
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the recusal of judges on the supreme court.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Section 22.005, Government Code, is amended to
    1-4  read as follows:
    1-5        Sec. 22.005.  DISQUALIFICATION OF JUSTICES.  (a)  The chief
    1-6  justice may <shall> certify to the governor <the following facts>
    1-7  when one or more justices <they occur:>
    1-8              <(1)  at least five members> of the supreme court have
    1-9  recused themselves under the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure or
   1-10  are disqualified under the constitution and laws of this state to
   1-11  hear and determine a case in the court<; or>
   1-12              <(2)  the justices of the court are equally divided in
   1-13  opinion because of the absence or disqualification of one of its
   1-14  members>.
   1-15        (b)  The governor immediately shall commission the requisite
   1-16  number of persons who are active appellate or district court
   1-17  justices or judges and who possess the qualifications prescribed
   1-18  for justices of the supreme court to try and determine the case.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-20  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-21  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-22  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-23  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-24  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
    2-1  passage, and it is so enacted.