By:  Turner, B.                                         H.B. No. 62
       73R1286 LGF-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the place for justices of the peace of certain counties
    1-3  to hold court.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 27.051(f), Government Code, is amended to
    1-6  read as follows:
    1-7        (f)  A justice of the peace of a precinct in a county with a
    1-8  population of less than 40,000 <30,000> may hold court in the
    1-9  county courthouse.  If requested by the justice, the commissioners
   1-10  court of the county may provide and furnish a suitable place in the
   1-11  courthouse for the justice to hold court.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-17  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-18  passage, and it is so enacted.