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1	1		By: Hughes S.B. No. 311
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	2	+	(In the Senate - Filed November 12, 2024; February 3, 2025,
	3	+	read first time and referred to Committee on State Affairs;
	4	+	March 26, 2025, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 10,
	5	+	Nays 0; March 26, 2025, sent to printer.)
	6	+	Click here to see the committee vote
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6	9		A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
7	10		AN ACT
8	11		relating to the writ power of the Texas Supreme Court.
9	12		BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
10	13		SECTION 1. Section 22.002(a), Government Code, is amended
11	14		to read as follows:
12	15		(a) The supreme court or a justice of the supreme court may
13	16		issue writs of procedendo and certiorari and all writs of quo
14	17		warranto and mandamus agreeable to the principles of law regulating
15	18		those writs, [against a statutory county court judge, a statutory
16	19		probate court judge, a district judge, a court of appeals or a
17	20		justice of a court of appeals, or any officer of state government]
18	21		except the supreme court or justice may not issue a writ against the
19	22		governor[, the court of criminal appeals, or a judge of the court of
20	23		criminal appeals].
21	24		SECTION 2. The changes in law made by this Act to Section
22	25		22.002(a), Government Code, apply only to an application for a writ
23	26		of procedendo, certiorari, quo warranto, or mandamus filed in the
24	27		Texas Supreme Court on or after the effective date of this Act. An
25	28		application for a writ of procedendo, certiorari, quo warranto, or
26	29		mandamus filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by
27	30		the law in effect on the date the application was filed, and the
28	31		former law is continued in effect for that purpose.
29	32		SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025.
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