By Luna                                                S.B. No. 952
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                                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.