By Sims S.B. No. 1622
74R8033 MWV-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the creation of the County Court at Law No. 3 of Bell
1-3 County.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 25.0161, Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 25.0161. Bell County. Bell County has the following
1-8 statutory county courts:
1-9 (1) County Court at Law No. 1 of Bell County; <and>
1-10 (2) County Court at Law No. 2 of Bell County; and
1-11 (3) County Court at Law No. 3 of Bell County.
1-12 SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 25.0161, Government Code,
1-13 as amended by this Act, the County Court at Law No. 3 of Bell
1-14 County is created January 1, 1999, or on an earlier date determined
1-15 by the commissioners court by an order entered on its minutes.
1-16 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-17 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-18 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-19 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-20 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-21 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-22 passage, and it is so enacted.