By Keffer H.B. No. 1706
75R6763 MWV-D
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.