1-1  By:  Montford                                          S.B. No. 867
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 11, 1993; March 15, 1993, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
    1-4  April 20, 1993, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 4,
    1-5  Nays 0; April 20, 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 location of certain justice of the peace courts.
   1-18        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-19        SECTION 1.  Subsection (d), Section 292.001, Local Government
   1-20  Code, is amended to read as follows:
   1-21        (d)  A justice of the peace court may not be housed or
   1-22  conducted in a building located outside the court's precinct except
   1-23  as provided by Section 27.051(f), Government Code, or unless the
   1-24  justice of the peace court is situated in the county courthouse in
   1-25  a county with a population of at least 220,000 persons but no more
   1-26  than 230,000 persons.
   1-27        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-28        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-29  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-30  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-31  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-32  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-34                                                         Austin,
   1-35  Texas
   1-36                                                         April 20, 1993
   1-37  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-38  President of the Senate
   1-39  Sir:
   1-40  We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred S.B.
   1-41  No. 867, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
   1-42  to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
   1-43  pass and be printed.
   1-44                                                         Henderson,
   1-45  Chairman
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   1-47                               WITNESSES
   1-48  No witnesses appeared on S.B. No. 867.