S.B. No. 867 AN ACT 1-1 relating to the location of certain justice of the peace courts. 1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-3 SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 292.001, Local Government 1-4 Code, is amended to read as follows: 1-5 (d) A justice of the peace court may not be housed or 1-6 conducted in a building located outside the court's precinct except 1-7 as provided by Section 27.051(f), Government Code, or unless the 1-8 justice of the peace court is situated in the county courthouse in 1-9 a county with a population of at least 220,000 persons but no more 1-10 than 230,000 persons. 1-11 SECTION 2. Subsection (f), Section 27.051, Government Code, 1-12 is amended to read as follows: 1-13 (f) A justice of the peace of a precinct in a county with a 1-14 population of less than 30,000 may hold court in the county 1-15 courthouse or another facility provided under Section 292.002(a), 1-16 Local Government Code, for that purpose. If requested by the 1-17 justice, the commissioners court of the county may provide and 1-18 furnish a suitable place in the courthouse or another facility 1-19 provided under Section 292.002(a), Local Government Code, for the 1-20 justice to hold court. 1-21 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-22 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.