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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