By Madla                                              S.B. No. 1615
       74R7347 MWV-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the abolition of the Reeves County Court at Law.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Sections 25.1971, 25.1972, and 26.295, Government
    1-5  Code, are repealed.
    1-6        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995, and the
    1-7  County Court at Law of Reeves County is abolished on that date.
    1-8        SECTION 3.  (a)  The local administrative district judge
    1-9  shall transfer all cases pending in the County Court at Law of
   1-10  Reeves County on the effective date of this Act to a district court
   1-11  in the county or the county court, as appropriate.
   1-12        (b)  When a case is transferred from one court to another as
   1-13  provided by Subsection (a) of this section, all processes, writs,
   1-14  bonds, recognizances, or other obligations issued from the
   1-15  transferring court are returnable to the court to which the case is
   1-16  transferred as if originally issued by that court.  The obligees in
   1-17  all bonds and recognizances taken in and for a court from which a
   1-18  case is transferred, and all witnesses summoned to appear in a
   1-19  court from which a case is transferred, are required to appear
   1-20  before the court to which a case is transferred as if originally
   1-21  required to appear before the court to which the transfer is made.
   1-22        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-23  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-24  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-1  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-2  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.