1-1 By: Duncan S.B. No. 1436 1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 12, 1999; March 15, 1999, read 1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; 1-4 April 15, 1999, reported adversely, with favorable Committee 1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 3, Nays 0; April 15, 1999, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 1436 By: Wentworth 1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-9 AN ACT 1-10 relating to the authority of a judge to conduct certain judicial 1-11 proceedings in a county other than the one in which the suit is 1-12 filed. 1-13 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-14 SECTION 1. Section 74.094, Government Code, is amended by 1-15 adding Subsection (e) to read as follows: 1-16 (e) A judge who has jurisdiction over a suit pending in one 1-17 county may, unless objected to by any party, conduct any of the 1-18 judicial proceedings except the trial on the merits in a different 1-19 county. 1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 1-21 applies to a suit filed on or after that date. A suit filed before 1-22 the effective date of this Act is covered by the law in effect when 1-23 the suit was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for 1-24 that purpose. 1-25 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-30 * * * * *