By Nixon H.B. No. 474
76R2817 MLS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to notification of assignment of a visiting judge.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 74.053(a), Government Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (a) When a judge is assigned under this chapter the
1-7 presiding judge shall[, if it is reasonable and practicable and if
1-8 time permits,] give notice of the assignment to each attorney
1-9 representing a party to the case that is to be heard in whole or
1-10 part by the assigned judge.
1-11 SECTION 2. This Act applies only to the assignment of a
1-12 judge under Chapter 74, Government Code, made on or after the
1-13 effective date of this Act. An assignment made before the
1-14 effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect at the
1-15 time the assignment is made, and that law is continued in effect
1-16 for that purpose.
1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.