By: Sims S.B. No. 1622
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the creation of the County Court at Law No. 3 of Bell
1-2 County.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 25.0161, Government Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 25.0161. Bell County. Bell County has the following
1-7 statutory county courts:
1-8 (1) County Court at Law No. 1 of Bell County; <and>
1-9 (2) County Court at Law No. 2 of Bell County; and
1-10 (3) County Court at Law No. 3 of Bell County.
1-11 SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 25.0161, Government Code,
1-12 as amended by this Act, the County Court at Law No. 3 of Bell
1-13 County is created January 1, 1999, or on an earlier date determined
1-14 by the commissioners court by an order entered on its minutes.
1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-20 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-21 passage, and it is so enacted.