1-1  By:  Junell (Senate Sponsor - Montford)               H.B. No. 3227
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1995;
    1-3  May 11, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Jurisprudence; May 24, 1995, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 24, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to creation of the County Court at Law No. 2 of Tom Green
    1-9  County.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Section 25.2281, Government Code, is amended to
   1-12  read as follows:
   1-13        Sec. 25.2281.  TOM GREEN COUNTY.  Tom Green County has the
   1-14  following <one> statutory county courts: <court, the>
   1-15              (1)  County Court at Law of Tom Green County; and
   1-16              (2)  County Court at Law No. 2 of Tom Green County.
   1-17        SECTION 2.  Section 25.2282, Government Code, is amended by
   1-18  adding Subsection (a) to read as follows:
   1-19        (a)  A judge of County Court at Law No. 2 of Tom Green County
   1-20  may not be assigned under Chapter 74 to serve as a visiting judge
   1-21  in Bexar, Dallas, Ector, Fort Bend, Harris, Jefferson, Lubbock,
   1-22  Midland, Tarrant, or Travis County.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  Notwithstanding Section 25.2281, Government Code,
   1-24  as amended by this Act, the County Court at Law No. 2 of Tom Green
   1-25  County is created January 1, 1997, or on an earlier date determined
   1-26  by the commissioners court by an order entered in its minutes.
   1-27        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-28  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-29  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-30  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-31  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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