85R28028 CAE-F
	By: Rodríguez	S.B. No. 1233
	(Thompson of Harris)
	Substitute the following for S.B. No. 1233:  No.

	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a writ of mandamus by a court of appeals against certain
	judges.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1.  Section 22.221(b), Government Code, is amended
	to read as follows:
	(b)  Each court of appeals for a court of appeals district
	may issue all writs of mandamus, agreeable to the principles of law
	regulating those writs, against [a]:
	(1)  a judge of a district, statutory county, statutory
	probate county, or county court in the court of appeals district;
	[or]
	(2)  a judge of a district court who is acting as a
	magistrate at a court of inquiry under Chapter 52, Code of Criminal
	Procedure, in the court of appeals district; or
	(3)  an associate judge of a district or county court
	appointed by a judge under Chapter 201, Family Code, in the court of
	appeals district for the judge who appointed the associate judge.
	SECTION 2.  (a)  Section 22.221(b)(1), Government Code, as
	amended by this Act, applies only to a proceeding seeking a writ of
	mandamus filed in a court of appeals under Section 22.221,
	Government Code, on or after the effective date of this Act. A
	proceeding seeking a writ of mandamus filed before the effective
	date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the
	suit was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that
	purpose.
	(b)  Section 22.221(b)(3), Government Code, as amended by
	this Act, applies only to a suit filed under Chapter 45, Title 1,
	Title 4, or Title 5, Family Code, on or after the effective date of
	this Act.  A suit filed under Chapter 45, Title 1, Title 4, or Title
	5, Family Code, before the effective date of this Act is governed by
	the law in effect on the date the suit was filed, and the former law
	is continued in effect for that purpose.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.