1-1     By:  Alexander, et al. (Senate Sponsor - Cain)         H.B. No. 614

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1997;

 1-3     April 10, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Jurisprudence; April 29, 1997, reported favorably by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 1; April 29, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the jurisdiction of justice courts.

 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 27.034(a), Government Code, is amended to

1-11     read as follows:

1-12           (a)  A [In a county with a population of 2.8 million or more,

1-13     a] justice court has jurisdiction of suits relating to enforcement

1-14     of a deed restriction of a residential subdivision that does not

1-15     concern a structural change to a dwelling.

1-16           SECTION 2.  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.

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