1-1 By: Duncan S.B. No. 265 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 25, 1999; January 28, 1999, 1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; 1-4 April 15, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 3, 1-5 Nays 0; April 15, 1999, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the temporary assignment of a district court judge to a 1-9 court of appeals. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 22, Government Code, is 1-12 amended by adding Section 22.229 to read as follows: 1-13 Sec. 22.229. TEMPORARY ASSIGNMENT OF DISTRICT JUDGE TO COURT 1-14 OF APPEALS. (a) The chief justice of a court of appeals may 1-15 assign a district court judge to sit on a court of appeals in which 1-16 the judge's district is located. 1-17 (b) To be eligible for assignment under Subsection (a), a 1-18 judge must: 1-19 (1) meet the qualifications for a justice of a court 1-20 of appeals provided by Section 6, Article V, Texas Constitution; 1-21 and 1-22 (2) be an active judge of a district court. 1-23 (c) A district court judge may not be assigned to a court of 1-24 appeals for more than 20 cases in a year. 1-25 (d) A district court judge assigned to a court of appeals 1-26 under Subsection (a) may not receive additional compensation for 1-27 the judge's service on the court of appeals but is entitled to 1-28 reimbursement of the travel expenses incurred by the judge while 1-29 serving on the court of appeals, as provided in the General 1-30 Appropriations Act. 1-31 (e) A district court judge assigned to a court of appeals 1-32 under Subsection (a) has all the powers of a justice of a court of 1-33 appeals during the district court judge's assignment. 1-34 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-35 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-36 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-37 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-38 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-39 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-40 passage, and it is so enacted. 1-41 * * * * *