1-1 By: Nixon S.B. No. 129
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed December 13, 1996; January 14, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 February 19, 1997, reported favorably, as amended, by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; February 19, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1 By: Wentworth
1-7 Amend S.B. No. 129 in SECTION 1 of the bill in amended Section
1-8 82.066, Government Code (introduced version, page 1, line 9),
1-9 between "573" and the period, by inserting: , unless:
1-10 (1) no other court has jurisdiction of the matter; and
1-11 (2) the judge or justice finds the attorney's
1-12 appearance is justified by exigent circumstances
1-13 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 2 By: Wentworth
1-14 Amend S.B. No. 129 on page 1, line 8, by striking the word third
1-15 and replacing it with the word second
1-16 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-17 AN ACT
1-18 relating to the appearance of an attorney in a court of this state.
1-19 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-20 SECTION 1. Section 82.066, Government Code, is amended to
1-21 read as follows:
1-22 Sec. 82.066. Attorney May Not Appear. An attorney may not
1-23 appear before a judge or justice in a civil or criminal case if the
1-24 attorney is related to the judge or justice by affinity or
1-25 consanguinity within the third [first] degree, as determined under
1-26 Chapter 573.
1-27 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-28 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-29 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-30 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-31 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-32 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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