By:  Turner                                           S.B. No. 1242
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the creation of a judicial district composed of Houston
    1-2  County and to the abolition of the Houston County Court at Law.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 24, Government Code, is
    1-5  amended by adding Section 24.599 to read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 24.599.  400th JUDICIAL DISTRICT (HOUSTON COUNTY).  The
    1-7  400th Judicial District is composed of Houston County.
    1-8        SECTION 2.  The 400th Judicial District is created.
    1-9        SECTION 3.  Sections 25.1151 and 25.1152, Government Code,
   1-10  are repealed.
   1-11        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-12        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.