By Oakley, et al.                                     H.B. No. 2801
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the creation of an additional judicial district in
    1-3  Rockwall County and to the composition of the 354th judicial
    1-4  district.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 24.500, Government Code, is amended to
    1-7  read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 24.500.  354TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (HUNT AND<,> RAINS<,
    1-9  AND ROCKWALL> COUNTIES).  (a)  The 354th Judicial District is
   1-10  composed of Hunt and<,> Rains<, and Rockwall> counties.
   1-11        (b)  Section 24.108, relating to the 8th District Court,
   1-12  contains provisions applicable to both that court and the 354th
   1-13  District Court.
   1-14        SECTION 2.  Subchapter C, Chapter 24, Government Code, is
   1-15  amended by adding Section 24.551 to read as follows:
   1-16        Sec. 24.551.  406TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (ROCKWALL COUNTY).  (a)
   1-17  The 406th Judicial District is composed of Rockwall County.
   1-18        (b)  A judge of the 406th Judicial District may not be
   1-19  assigned under Chapter 74 to serve as a visiting judge in Bexar,
   1-20  Dallas, Ector, Fort Bend, Harris, Jefferson, Lubbock, Midland,
   1-21  Tarrant, or Travis County.
   1-22        SECTION 3.  The 406th Judicial District is created and this
   1-23  Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
    2-1        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-2  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-3  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-4  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-5  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.