1-1 By: Turner, Wentworth S.B. No. 1515
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1995; March 21, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 April 4, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6,
1-5 Nays 0; April 4, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to terms of courts and grand juries in Williamson County.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Sections 24.128, 24.454, and 24.513, Government
1-11 Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-12 Sec. 24.128. 26th JUDICIAL DISTRICT (WILLIAMSON COUNTY).
1-13 (a) The 26th Judicial District is composed of Williamson County.
1-14 (b) The terms of the 26th District Court begin on the first
1-15 Mondays in January and<, March, May,> July<, September, and
1-16 November>.
1-17 <(c) The judge of the 26th District Court shall organize and
1-18 impanel grand juries for Williamson County at the March and
1-19 September terms of the court. When the judge considers it
1-20 necessary, the judge, by entering an order, may organize and
1-21 impanel grand juries at any other term of the court.>
1-22 Sec. 24.454. 277th JUDICIAL DISTRICT (WILLIAMSON COUNTY).
1-23 (a) The 277th Judicial District is composed of Williamson County.
1-24 (b) The terms of the 277th District Court begin on the first
1-25 Mondays in January and<, March, May,> July<, September, and
1-26 November>.
1-27 <(c) The judge of the 277th District Court shall organize
1-28 and impanel grand juries for Williamson County at the January and
1-29 July terms of the court and may, when considered necessary, enter
1-30 an order to organize and impanel grand juries at any other term of
1-31 the court.>
1-32 Sec. 24.513. 368th JUDICIAL DISTRICT (WILLIAMSON COUNTY).
1-33 (a) The 368th Judicial District is composed of Williamson County.
1-34 (b) The terms of the 368th District Court begin on the first
1-35 Mondays in January and<, March, May,> July<, September, and
1-36 November>.
1-37 <(c) The judge of the 368th District Court shall organize
1-38 and impanel grand juries for Williamson County at the May and
1-39 November terms of the court, and may, when considered necessary,
1-40 enter an order to organize and impanel grand juries at any other
1-41 term of the court.>
1-42 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-43 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-44 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-45 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-46 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-47 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-48 passage, and it is so enacted.
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