By Cuellar H.B. No. 58
76R1777 MLS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the creation of a judicial district composed of Webb
1-3 County.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 24, Government Code, is
1-6 amended by adding Section 24.547 to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 24.547. 402ND JUDICIAL DISTRICT (WEBB COUNTY). (a)
1-8 The 402nd Judicial District is composed of Webb County.
1-9 (b) The 402nd District Court shall give preference to cases
1-10 involving family violence, cases under the Family Code, and cases
1-11 under the Health and Safety Code.
1-12 SECTION 2. Section 24.151(f), Government Code, is amended to
1-13 read as follows:
1-14 (f) In Webb County, the clerk of the district courts shall
1-15 file all civil cases, except tax suits, on the Clerk's Civil File
1-16 Docket and shall number the cases consecutively. All tax suits
1-17 shall be assigned and docketed in the 49th District Court. All
1-18 cases involving family violence, all cases under the Family Code,
1-19 and all cases under the Health and Safety Code shall be assigned
1-20 and docketed in the 402nd District Court. All other [Each] civil
1-21 cases [case, except tax suits,] shall be assigned and docketed at
1-22 random by the district clerk according to the following
1-23 percentages: 49th District Court, 20 percent; 111th District
1-24 Court, 60 percent; and the 341st District Court, 20 percent. The
2-1 clerk shall keep a separate file docket, known as the Clerk's
2-2 Criminal File Docket, for criminal cases and a separate file
2-3 docket, known as the Clerk's Tax Suit Docket, for tax suits. [Each
2-4 tax suit shall be assigned and docketed in the 49th District
2-5 Court.] The clerk shall number the cases on the Clerk's Tax Suit
2-6 Docket consecutively with a separate series of numbers and shall
2-7 number the cases on the Clerk's Criminal File Docket consecutively
2-8 with a separate series of numbers.
2-9 SECTION 3. The 402nd Judicial District is created and this
2-10 Act takes effect January 1, 2001.
2-11 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.