1-1 By: Tallas (Senate Sponsor - Brown) H.B. No. 2821
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1993;
1-3 April 27, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; May 11, 1993, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 11, 1993, sent to printer.)
1-6 COMMITTEE VOTE
1-7 Yea Nay PNV Absent
1-8 Henderson x
1-9 Harris of Tarrant x
1-10 Brown x
1-11 Harris of Dallas x
1-12 Luna x
1-13 Parker x
1-14 West x
1-15 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-16 AN ACT
1-17 relating to the creation of the County Court at Law No. 3 of Fort
1-18 Bend County.
1-19 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-20 SECTION 1. Section 25.0811, Government Code, is amended to
1-21 read as follows:
1-22 Sec. 25.0811. FORT BEND COUNTY. Fort Bend County has the
1-23 following statutory county courts:
1-24 (1) County Court at Law No. 1 of Fort Bend County;
1-25 <and>
1-26 (2) County Court at Law No. 2 of Fort Bend County; and
1-27 (3) County Court at Law No. 3 of Fort Bend County.
1-28 SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 25.0811, Government Code,
1-29 as amended by this Act, the County Court at Law No. 3 of Fort Bend
1-30 County is created January 1, 1995.
1-31 SECTION 3. Notwithstanding Section 25.0009, Government Code,
1-32 the initial vacancy in the office of judge on creation of the
1-33 County Court at Law No. 3 of Fort Bend County shall be filled by
1-34 election. The office of judge of the County Court at Law No. 3 of
1-35 Fort Bend County exists for purposes of the primary and general
1-36 elections in 1994. The qualified voters of the county shall elect
1-37 the initial judge of the County Court at Law No. 3 of Fort Bend
1-38 County at the general election in 1994 for a four-year term
1-39 beginning January 1, 1995, as provided by Article XVI, Section 65,
1-40 of the Texas Constitution. A vacancy after the initial vacancy is
1-41 filled as provided by Section 25.0009, Government Code.
1-42 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-43 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-44 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-45 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-46 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
1-47 * * * * *
1-48 Austin,
1-49 Texas
1-50 May 11, 1993
1-51 Hon. Bob Bullock
1-52 President of the Senate
1-53 Sir:
1-54 We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred H.B.
1-55 No. 2821, have had the same under consideration, and I am
1-56 instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
1-57 that it do pass and be printed.
1-58 Henderson,
1-59 Chairman
1-60 * * * * *
1-61 WITNESSES
1-62 FOR AGAINST ON
1-63 ___________________________________________________________________
1-64 Name: Karen Thompson Short x
1-65 Representing: Ft. Bend Cty.
1-66 City: Fulshear
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