By:  Turner, Wentworth                                S.B. No. 1515
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to terms of courts and grand juries in Williamson County.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Sections 24.128, 24.454, and 24.513, Government
    1-4  Code, are amended to read as follows:
    1-5        Sec. 24.128.  26TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (WILLIAMSON COUNTY).
    1-6  (a)  The 26th Judicial District is composed of Williamson County.
    1-7        (b)  The terms of the 26th District Court begin on the first
    1-8  Mondays in January and<, March, May,> July<, September, and
    1-9  November>.
   1-10        <(c)  The judge of the 26th District Court shall organize and
   1-11  impanel grand juries for Williamson County at the March and
   1-12  September terms of the court.  When the judge considers it
   1-13  necessary, the judge, by entering an order, may organize and
   1-14  impanel grand juries at any other term of the court.>
   1-15        Sec. 24.454.  277TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (WILLIAMSON COUNTY).
   1-16  (a)  The 277th Judicial District is composed of Williamson County.
   1-17        (b)  The terms of the 277th District Court begin on the first
   1-18  Mondays in January and<, March, May,> July<, September, and
   1-19  November>.
   1-20        <(c)  The judge of the 277th District Court shall organize
   1-21  and impanel grand juries for Williamson County at the January and
   1-22  July terms of the court and may, when considered necessary, enter
   1-23  an order to organize and impanel grand juries at any other term of
    2-1  the court.>
    2-2        Sec. 24.513.  368TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (WILLIAMSON COUNTY).
    2-3  (a)  The 368th Judicial District is composed of Williamson County.
    2-4        (b)  The terms of the 368th District Court begin on the first
    2-5  Mondays in January and<, March, May,> July<, September, and
    2-6  November>.
    2-7        <(c)  The judge of the 368th District Court shall organize
    2-8  and impanel grand juries for Williamson County at the May and
    2-9  November terms of the court, and may, when considered necessary,
   2-10  enter an order to organize and impanel grand juries at any other
   2-11  term of the court.>
   2-12        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-13  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-14  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-15  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-16  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-17  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-18  passage, and it is so enacted.