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 Sections 25.1971, 25.1972, and 26.295, Government 1-5 Code, are repealed. 1-6 SECTION 2.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.