By Duncan                                             S.B. No. 1432
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Texas.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 22.001(a), Government Code, is amended to
 1-5     read as follows:
 1-6           (a)  The supreme court has appellate jurisdiction, except in
 1-7     criminal law matters, coextensive with the limits of the state and
 1-8     extending to all questions of law arising in the following cases
 1-9     when they have been brought to the courts of appeals from
1-10     appealable judgment of the trial courts and that, in the opinion of
1-11     the supreme court, are appropriate for the court to consider:
1-12                 (1)  a case in which the justices of a court of appeals
1-13     disagree on a question of law material to the decision;
1-14                 (2)  a case in which one of the courts of appeals holds
1-15     differently from a prior decision of another court of appeals or of
1-16     the supreme court on a question of law material to a decision of
1-17     the case;
1-18                 (3)  a case involving the construction or validity of a
1-19     statute necessary to a determination of the case;
1-20                 (4)  a case involving state revenue;
1-21                 (5)  a case in which the railroad commission is a
1-22     party; and
1-23                 (6)  any other case in which it appears that an error
1-24     of law has been committed by the court of appeals, and that error
 2-1     is of such importance to the jurisprudence of the state that, in
 2-2     the opinion of the supreme court, it requires correction, but
 2-3     excluding those cases in which the jurisdiction of the court of
 2-4     appeals is made final by statute.
 2-5           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
 2-6     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
 2-7     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
 2-8     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-9     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-10     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-11     passage, and it is so enacted.