By Craddick H.B. No. 767
74R589 RJA-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the terms of court of the 142nd District Court.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 24.243(b), Government Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (b) The terms of the 142nd District Court begin on the first
1-7 Mondays in January <March> and July of each year <September>.
1-8 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 1996.
1-9 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-10 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-11 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-12 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-13 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.