1-1 By: Keffer (Senate Sponsor - Fraser) H.B. No. 1706
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 1997;
1-3 April 29, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; May 15, 1997, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 15, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the terms of court of the 42nd District Court.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 24.144(c), Government Code, is amended to
1-11 read as follows:
1-12 (c) The terms of the 42nd District Court begin:
1-13 (1) in Callahan County on the [8th and 22nd Mondays
1-14 after the] first Mondays [Monday] in January and July [on the
1-15 eighth Monday after the first Monday in September];
1-16 (2) in Coleman County on the first Mondays in January
1-17 and July; and
1-18 (3) in Taylor County on the first Monday in January,
1-19 on the 15th Monday after the first Monday in January, and on the
1-20 first Monday in September.
1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-26 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-27 passage, and it is so enacted.
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