By Luna S.B. No. 952 76R3023 MLS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the referral of cases to certain magistrates. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 54.907(a), Government Code, is amended to 1-5 read as follows: 1-6 (a) To refer one or more cases to a magistrate, a judge must 1-7 issue an order of referral specifying the magistrate's duties. The 1-8 judge may issue a written order of referral or may read the order 1-9 of referral into the minutes of the court. 1-10 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-11 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-12 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-13 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-14 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-15 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-16 passage, and it is so enacted.