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          By Chisum                                             H.B. No. 2632
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the terms of court and places for holding court of
    1-3  justice of the peace courts in counties having a population less
    1-4  than 30,000.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 27.051(f), Texas Government Code, is
    1-7  amended to read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 27.051(f)  A justice of the peace of a precinct in a
    1-9  county with a population of less than 30,000 may hold court in the
   1-10  county courthouse, or another facility provided pursuant to Article
   1-11  292.002(a), Texas Local Government Code, for that purpose.  If
   1-12  requested by the justice, the commissioners court of the county may
   1-13  provide and furnish a suitable place in the courthouse or   another
   1-14  facility provided pursuant to Article 292.002(a), Texas Local
   1-15  Government Code for the justice to hold court.
   1-16        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.