1-1  By:  Montford                                         S.B. No. 1249
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1995; March 16, 1995, read
    1-3  first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
    1-4  April 26, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 6,
    1-5  Nays 0; April 26, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-7                                AN ACT
    1-8  relating to court coordinators and computer equipment for certain
    1-9  district courts.
   1-10        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-11        SECTION 1.  Chapter 75, Government Code, is amended by adding
   1-12  Subchapter I to read as follows:
   1-13         SUBCHAPTER I.  COURT COORDINATORS; COMPUTER EQUIPMENT
   1-14        Sec. 75.531.  FUNDS FOR COURT COORDINATORS AND COMPUTER
   1-15  EQUIPMENT.  (a)  The legislature may provide funds for a court
   1-16  coordinator, computer equipment, and support personnel and services
   1-17  for a district court serving a judicial district with more than one
   1-18  county if each county in the judicial district has an average of
   1-19  less than one district judge.
   1-20        (b)  An average number of district judges for a county is
   1-21  determined by dividing the total number of district judges serving
   1-22  the county by the total number of counties served by those district
   1-23  judges.
   1-24        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-25        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-26  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-27  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-28  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-29  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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