1-1 By: Craddick (Senate Sponsor - Bivins) H.B. No. 767
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 10, 1995;
1-3 April 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; April 26, 1995, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 26, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the terms of court of the 142nd District Court.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 24.243(b), Government Code, is amended to
1-11 read as follows:
1-12 (b) The terms of the 142nd District Court begin on the first
1-13 Mondays in January <March> and July of each year <September>.
1-14 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect January 1, 1996.
1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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