S.B. No. 1233         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.             ______________________________ ______________________________      President of the Senate Speaker of the House                 I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1233 passed the Senate on   April 19, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0; and that   the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 26, 2017, by the   following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.       ______________________________   Secretary of the Senate                I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1233 passed the House, with   amendment, on May 23, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 142,   Nays 2, one present not voting.       ______________________________   Chief Clerk of the House            Approved:     ______________________________                Date       ______________________________              Governor