By Keffer                                             H.B. No. 1706

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the terms of court of the 42nd District Court.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 24.144(c), Government Code, is amended to

 1-5     read as follows:

 1-6           (c)  The terms of the 42nd District Court begin:

 1-7                 (1)  in Callahan County on the [8th and 22nd Mondays

 1-8     after the] first Mondays [Monday] in January and July [on the

 1-9     eighth Monday after the first Monday in September];

1-10                 (2)  in Coleman County on the first Mondays in January

1-11     and July; and

1-12                 (3)  in Taylor County on the first Monday in January,

1-13     on the 15th Monday after the first Monday in January, and on the

1-14     first Monday in September.

1-15           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-19     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-20     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-21     passage, and it is so enacted.