1-1 By: Sims S.B. No. 1622
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 24, 1995; March 29, 1995, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 April 26, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 6,
1-5 Nays 0; April 26, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the creation of the County Court at Law No. 3 of Bell
1-9 County.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 25.0161, Government Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 25.0161. Bell County. Bell County has the following
1-14 statutory county courts:
1-15 (1) County Court at Law No. 1 of Bell County; <and>
1-16 (2) County Court at Law No. 2 of Bell County; and
1-17 (3) County Court at Law No. 3 of Bell County.
1-18 SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 25.0161, Government Code,
1-19 as amended by this Act, the County Court at Law No. 3 of Bell
1-20 County is created January 1, 1999, or on an earlier date determined
1-21 by the commissioners court by an order entered on its minutes.
1-22 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-23 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-27 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-28 passage, and it is so enacted.
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