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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