1-1     By:  Reyna of Dallas (Senate Sponsor - Carona)        H.B. No. 1562
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999;
 1-3     May 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Jurisprudence; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to matters that may be referred to a criminal law
 1-9     magistrate in Dallas County.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 54.306(a), Government Code, is amended to
1-12     read as follows:
1-13           (a)  A judge may refer to a magistrate any matter arising out
1-14     of a criminal case involving:
1-15                 (1)  a negotiated plea of guilty or nolo contendere
1-16     before the court;
1-17                 (2)  a bond forfeiture;
1-18                 (3)  a pretrial motion;
1-19                 (4)  a postconviction writ of habeas corpus;
1-20                 (5)  an examining trial;
1-21                 (6)  an occupational driver's license; [and]
1-22                 (7)  an appeal of an administrative driver's license
1-23     revocation hearing; and
1-24                 (8)  any other matter the judge considers necessary and
1-25     proper.
1-26           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-27           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-28     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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