1-1        By:  Wentworth                                  S.B. No. 1384
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1995; March 20, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
    1-4  April 4, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
    1-5  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 4, 1995,
    1-6  sent to printer.)
    1-7  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1384               By:  Wentworth
    1-8                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-9                                AN ACT
   1-10  relating to the recusal of judges on the supreme court.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 22.005, Government Code,
   1-13  is amended to read as follows:
   1-14        (a)  The justice may <shall> certify to the governor <the
   1-15  following facts> when one or more justices <they occur:>
   1-16              <(1)  at least five members> of the supreme court have
   1-17  recused themselves under the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure or
   1-18  are disqualified under the constitution and laws of this state to
   1-19  hear and determine a case in the court<; or>
   1-20              <(2)  the justices of the court are equally divided in
   1-21  opinion because of the absence or disqualification of one of its
   1-22  members>.
   1-23        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-25  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-26  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-27  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-28  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-29  passage, and it is so enacted.
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