By: Luna S.B. No. 952 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 1-1 relating to the referral of cases to certain magistrates. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 54.907, Government Code, 1-4 is amended to read as follows: 1-5 (a) To refer one or more cases to a magistrate, a judge must 1-6 issue an order of referral specifying the magistrate's duties. The 1-7 judge may issue a written order of referral or may read the order 1-8 of referral into the minutes of the court. 1-9 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-14 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-15 passage, and it is so enacted.