By Rosson                                              S.B. No. 256
       74R2267 MWV-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the creation of two judicial districts composed of El
    1-3  Paso County and to the composition of the 154th and 287th judicial
    1-4  districts.
    1-5        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-6        SECTION 1.  Section 24.253, Government Code, is amended to
    1-7  read as follows:
    1-8        Sec. 24.253.  154TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (EL PASO <LAMB>
    1-9  COUNTY).  <(a)>  The 154th Judicial District is composed of El Paso
   1-10  <Lamb> County.
   1-11        <(b)  The terms of the 154th District Court begin on the
   1-12  first Mondays in January and July and are designated as the January
   1-13  and July terms.>
   1-14        SECTION 2.  Section 24.464, Government Code, is amended to
   1-15  read as follows:
   1-16        Sec. 24.464.  287TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (BAILEY, LAMB, AND
   1-17  PARMER COUNTIES).  (a)  The 287th Judicial District is composed of
   1-18  Bailey, Lamb, and Parmer counties.
   1-19        (b)  The terms of the 287th District Court begin in Bailey
   1-20  County on the first Mondays in February and August, <and> in Parmer
   1-21  County on the first Mondays in March and September, and in Lamb
   1-22  County on the first Mondays in January and July.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  Subchapter C, Chapter 24, Government Code, is
   1-24  amended by adding Sections 24.540 and 24.541 to read as follows:
    2-1        Sec. 24.540.  395TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (EL PASO COUNTY).  The
    2-2  395th Judicial District is composed of El Paso County.
    2-3        Sec. 24.541.  396TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (EL PASO COUNTY).  The
    2-4  396th Judicial District is composed of El Paso County.
    2-5        SECTION 4.  The 395th and 396th judicial districts are
    2-6  created and this Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-7        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-8  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.