By Cain S.B. No. 638
74R6000 RJA-D
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). The
1-17 406th Judicial District is composed of Rockwall County.
1-18 SECTION 3. The 406th Judicial District is created and this
1-19 Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-20 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.