By Naishtat                                            H.B. No. 598
       74R3107 MWV-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the creation of two judicial districts in Travis
    1-3  County.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 24, Government Code, is
    1-6  amended by adding Sections 24.542 and 24.543 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 24.542.  397TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (TRAVIS COUNTY).  (a)
    1-8  The 397th Judicial District is composed of Travis County.
    1-9        (b)  The 397th Judicial District shall give preference to
   1-10  criminal cases.
   1-11        Sec. 24.543.  398TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (TRAVIS COUNTY).  (a)
   1-12  The 398th Judicial District is composed of Travis County.
   1-13        (b)  The 398th Judicial District shall give preference to
   1-14  criminal cases.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  The 397th and 398th Judicial Districts are
   1-16  created and this Act takes effect September 1, 1996.
   1-17        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-18  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-19  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-20  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-21  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.