1-1  By:  Henderson                                        S.B. No. 1457
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed April 29, 1993; April 30, 1993, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; May 4, 1993,
    1-4  reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0;
    1-5  May 4, 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 Criminal Court at Law No. 15
   1-18  of Harris County, Texas.
   1-19        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-20        SECTION 1.  Subsection (b), Section 25.1031, Government Code,
   1-21  is amended to read as follows:
   1-22        (b)  Harris County has the following county criminal courts:
   1-23              (1)  County Criminal Court at Law No. 1 of Harris
   1-24  County, Texas;
   1-25              (2)  County Criminal Court at Law No. 2 of Harris
   1-26  County, Texas;
   1-27              (3)  County Criminal Court at Law No. 3 of Harris
   1-28  County, Texas;
   1-29              (4)  County Criminal Court at Law No. 4 of Harris
   1-30  County, Texas;
   1-31              (5)  County Criminal Court at Law No. 5 of Harris
   1-32  County, Texas;
   1-33              (6)  County Criminal Court at Law No. 6 of Harris
   1-34  County, Texas;
   1-35              (7)  County Criminal Court at Law No. 7 of Harris
   1-36  County, Texas;
   1-37              (8)  County Criminal Court at Law No. 8 of Harris
   1-38  County, Texas;
   1-39              (9)  County Criminal Court at Law No. 9 of Harris
   1-40  County, Texas;
   1-41              (10)  County Criminal Court at Law No. 10 of Harris
   1-42  County, Texas;
   1-43              (11)  County Criminal Court at Law No. 11 of Harris
   1-44  County, Texas;
   1-45              (12)  County Criminal Court at Law No. 12 of Harris
   1-46  County, Texas;
   1-47              (13)  County Criminal Court at Law No. 13 of Harris
   1-48  County, Texas; <and>
   1-49              (14)  County Criminal Court at Law No. 14 of Harris
   1-50  County, Texas; and
   1-51              (15)  County Criminal Court at Law No. 15 of Harris
   1-52  County, Texas.
   1-53        SECTION 2.  Notwithstanding Subdivision (15), Subsection (b),
   1-54  Section 25.1031, Government Code, as added by this Act, the County
   1-55  Criminal Court at Law No. 15 of Harris County, Texas, is created
   1-56  January 1, 1995.
   1-57        SECTION 3.  Notwithstanding Section 25.0009, Government Code,
   1-58  the initial vacancy in the office of judge on creation of the
   1-59  County Criminal Court at Law No. 15 of Harris County, Texas, shall
   1-60  be filled by election.  The office of judge of the County Criminal
   1-61  Court at Law No. 15 of Harris County, Texas, exists for purposes of
   1-62  the primary and general elections in 1994.  The qualified voters of
   1-63  the county shall elect the initial judge in 1994 for a four-year
   1-64  term as provided by Article XVI, Sections 64 and 65, of the Texas
   1-65  Constitution.  A vacancy after the initial vacancy is filled as
   1-66  provided by Section 25.0009, Government Code.
   1-67        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-68  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.
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    2-5                                                         Austin,
    2-6  Texas
    2-7                                                         May 4, 1993
    2-8  Hon. Bob Bullock
    2-9  President of the Senate
   2-10  Sir:
   2-11  We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred S.B.
   2-12  No. 1457, have had the same under consideration, and I am
   2-13  instructed to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation
   2-14  that it do pass and be printed.
   2-15                                                         Henderson,
   2-16  Chairman
   2-17                               * * * * *
   2-18                               WITNESSES
   2-19                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
   2-20  ___________________________________________________________________
   2-21  Name:  Bob Wessels                               x
   2-22  Representing:  Cty. Criminal Court at Law
   2-23  City:  Houston
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