Amend SB 20 by adding the following appropriately numbered
sections and renumbering the existing sections appropriately:
      SECTION ____.  Section 24.384, Government Code, is amended to
read as follows:
      Sec. 24.384.  205TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (<CULBERSON,> EL PASO
COUNTY<, AND HUDSPETH COUNTIES>).  (a)  The 205th Judicial District
is composed of <Culberson,> El Paso County <, and Hudspeth
counties>.
      (b)  <The 205th District Court shall give preference to
criminal cases.>
      <(c)>  Section 24.136, relating to the 34th District Court,
contains provisions applicable to both that court and the 205th
District Court.
      (c)  The 205th District Court has jurisdiction of the
community supervision and corrections department that serves
Hudspeth and Culberson counties.
      SECTION ____.  (a)  The local administrative district judge
shall transfer all cases from Culberson and Hudspeth counties that
are pending in the 205th District Court on the effective date of
this Act to the 394th District Court.
      (b)  The local administrative district judge shall transfer
all cases from Reagan and Upton counties that are pending in the
83rd District Court on the effective date of this Act to the 112th
District Court.
      (c)  When a case is transferred from one court to another as
provided by Subsection (a) or (b) of this section, all processes,
writs, bonds, recognizances, or other obligations issued from the
transferring court are returnable to the court to which the case is
transferred as if originally issued by that court.  The obligees in
all bonds and recognizances taken in and for a court from which a
case is transferred, and all witnesses summoned to appear in a
court from which a case is transferred, are required to appear
before the court to which a case is transferred as if originally
required to appear before the court to which the transfer is made.