Bill not drafted by TLC or Senate E&E. Line and page numbers may not match official copy. By Thompson H.B. No. 2308 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the list of former and retired judges subject to 1-3 assignment. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 74.055(d), Government Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (d) A former district judge who has served as judge of more 1-8 than one district court or has served as a judge for at least 12 1-9 months in a district, statutory probate, statutory county, or 1-10 appellate court and has served at least 72 months as a member of 1-11 the Texas Legislature is not required to meet the 48 months of 1-12 service requirement in Subsection (c)(1) to be eligible to be named 1-13 on the list. 1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.