1-1 By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1415
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1995; March 20, 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 creation of the County Court at Law Number 4 of Travis
1-9 County.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 25.2291, Government Code,
1-12 is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) Travis County has the following statutory county courts:
1-14 (1) County Court at Law No. 1 of Travis County, Texas;
1-15 (2) County Court at Law No. 2 of Travis County, Texas;
1-16 (3) County Court at Law No. 3 of Travis County, Texas;
1-17 (4) County Court at Law Number 4 of Travis County;
1-18 (5) County Court at Law Number 5 of Travis County;
1-19 (6) <(5)> The County Court at Law Number 6 of Travis
1-20 County; and
1-21 (7) <(6)> The County Court at Law Number 7 of Travis
1-22 County.
1-23 SECTION 2. Section 25.2292, Government Code, is amended by
1-24 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-25 (c) The County Court at Law Number 4 of Travis County shall
1-26 give preference to cases in which family violence is alleged,
1-27 including cases under Chapter 71, Family Code.
1-28 SECTION 3. Notwithstanding Subdivision (4), Subsection (a),
1-29 Section 25.2291, Government Code, as amended by this Act, the
1-30 County Court at Law Number 4 of Travis County, is created January
1-31 1, 1997.
1-32 SECTION 4. Notwithstanding Section 25.0009, Government Code,
1-33 the initial vacancy in the office of judge on creation of the
1-34 County Court at Law Number 4 of Travis County shall be filled by
1-35 election. The office of judge of the County Court at Law Number 4
1-36 of Travis County exists for purposes of the primary and general
1-37 election in 1996. The qualified voters of the county shall elect
1-38 the initial judge of the County Court at Law Number 4 of Travis
1-39 County at the general election in 1996 for a two-year term
1-40 beginning January 1, 1997. Thereafter, the judge of the County
1-41 Court at Law Number 4 of Travis County shall be elected for a
1-42 four-year term as provided by Sections 64 and 65, Article XVI,
1-43 Texas Constitution. A vacancy after the initial vacancy is filled
1-44 as provided by Section 25.0009, Government Code.
1-45 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
1-46 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-47 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-48 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-49 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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