By Lewis of Tarrant                                    H.B. No. 915
       74R4342 MLR-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the creation of a judicial district composed of Tarrant
    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 Section 24.544 to read as follows:
    1-7        Sec. 24.544.  399TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (TARRANT COUNTY).  (a)
    1-8  The 399th Judicial District is composed of Tarrant County.
    1-9        (b)  The 399th District Court shall give preference to
   1-10  criminal cases.
   1-11        SECTION 2.  The 399th Judicial District is created and this
   1-12  Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-13        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-14  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-15  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-16  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-17  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.