By Duncan S.B. No. 1432 76R5920 JMC-D 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.