By: Hunter, Bob H.B. No. 265 73R1493 CAG-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to county law library fees charged in cases filed in a 1-3 justice of the peace court. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 323.023(a), Local Government Code, is 1-6 amended to read as follows: 1-7 (a) A sum set by the commissioners court not to exceed $20 1-8 shall be taxed, collected, and paid as other costs in each civil 1-9 case filed in a justice of the peace court if the amount in 1-10 controversy is $1,000 or more and in each civil case filed in a 1-11 county or district court, except suits for delinquent taxes. The 1-12 county is not liable for the costs. 1-13 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 1-18 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 1-19 passage, and it is so enacted.