1-1  By:  McDonald (Senate Sponsor - Rosson)               H.B. No. 2827
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1993;
    1-3  May 4, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Jurisprudence; May 11, 1993, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 5, 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 district courts and juvenile board of El Paso
   1-18  County.
   1-19        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-20        SECTION 1.  Section 152.0771(a), Human Resources Code, is
   1-21  amended to read as follows:
   1-22        (a)  The juvenile board of El Paso County is composed of:
   1-23              (1)  the county judge;
   1-24              (2)  each family district court judge;
   1-25              (3)  each juvenile court judge; and
   1-26              (4)  up to five judges on the "El Paso Council of
   1-27  Judges" to be elected by a majority vote of said council <the
   1-28  county judge and the district judges in El Paso County>.
   1-29        SECTION 2.  Sections 152.0771(b), (g), and (h), Human
   1-30  Resources Code, are repealed.
   1-31        SECTION 3.  Sections 24.167 and 24.635, Government Code, are
   1-32  amended to read as follows:
   1-33        Sec. 24.167.  327TH <65th> JUDICIAL DISTRICT (EL PASO
   1-34  COUNTY).  (a)  The 327th <65th> Judicial District is composed of El
   1-35  Paso County.
   1-36        (b)  The terms of the 327th <65th> District Court begin on
   1-37  the first Mondays in February, April, June, September, October, and
   1-38  December.
   1-39        (c)  Section 24.136, relating to the 34th District Court,
   1-40  contains provisions applicable to both that court and the 327th
   1-41  <65th> District Court.
   1-42        Sec. 24.635.  65TH <327th> JUDICIAL DISTRICT (EL PASO
   1-43  COUNTY).  The 65th <327th> Judicial District is composed of El Paso
   1-44  County.
   1-45        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, except
   1-46  that Section 3 of this Act takes effect September 1, 1996.
   1-47        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-48  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-49  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-50  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-51  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-52  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-53  passage, and it is so enacted.
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   1-55                                                         Austin,
   1-56  Texas
   1-57                                                         May 11, 1993
   1-58  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-59  President of the Senate
   1-60  Sir:
   1-61  We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred H.B.
   1-62  No. 2827, have had the same under consideration, and I am
   1-63  instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
   1-64  that it do pass and be printed.
   1-65                                                         Henderson,
   1-66  Chairman
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   1-68                               WITNESSES
    2-1  No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 2827.