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         By Hartnett                                            H.B. No. 971

         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 971:

         By Hartnett                                        C.S.H.B. No. 971

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the jurisdiction of county criminal courts in Dallas

 1-3     County.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 25.0593(a), Government Code, is amended

 1-6     to read as follows:

 1-7           (a)  A county criminal court in Dallas County has the

 1-8     criminal jurisdiction, original and appellate, provided by the

 1-9     constitution and law for county courts and concurrent jurisdiction

1-10     with county courts at law for Dallas County to hear appeals of the

1-11     suspension of driver's licenses and original proceedings regarding

1-12     occupational driver's licenses.

1-13           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.