By: Nixon S.B. No. 129
97S0064/1
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the appearance of an attorney in a court of this state.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 82.066, Government Code, is amended to
1-4 read as follows:
1-5 Sec. 82.066. Attorney May Not Appear. An attorney may not
1-6 appear before a judge or justice in a civil or criminal case if the
1-7 attorney is related to the judge or justice by affinity or
1-8 consanguinity within the third [first] degree, as determined under
1-9 Chapter 573.
1-10 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-11 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.