By Uher                                         H.B. No. 1136

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the creation of a statutory county court in Matagorda

 1-3     County.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 2, Chapter 551, Acts of the 74th

 1-6     Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, is amended to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 2.  Notwithstanding Section 25.1631, Government Code, as

 1-8     added by this Act, the County Court at Law of Matagorda County is

 1-9     created September 1, 2001 [January 1, 1998], or on an earlier date

1-10     determined by the commissioners court by an order entered in its

1-11     minutes.

1-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.