By Lewis of Tarrant, et al. H.B. No. 455 75R3680 MWV-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to objection to a visiting judge. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 74.053(b), Government Code, is amended to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 (b) If a party to a civil or criminal case files a timely 1-7 objection to the assignment, the judge shall not hear the case. 1-8 Except as provided by Subsection (d), each party to the case is 1-9 only entitled to one objection under this section for that case. 1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and 1-11 applies only to the assignment of a judge or justice made on or 1-12 after the effective date of this Act. An assignment made before 1-13 the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at 1-14 the time the assignment was made, and that law is continued in 1-15 effect for that purpose. 1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.