1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to creation of the County Court at Law Number 4 of Travis
1-3 County.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 25.2291(a), Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (a) Travis County has the following statutory county courts:
1-8 (1) County Court at Law No. 1 of Travis County, Texas;
1-9 (2) County Court at Law No. 2 of Travis County, Texas;
1-10 (3) County Court at Law No. 3 of Travis County, Texas;
1-11 (4) County Court at Law Number 4 of Travis County;
1-12 (5) County Court at Law Number 5 of Travis County;
1-13 (6) [(5)] The County Court at Law Number 6 of Travis
1-14 County; and
1-15 (7) [(6)] The County Court at Law Number 7 of Travis
1-16 County.
1-17 SECTION 2. Section 25.2292, Government Code, is amended by
1-18 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-19 (c) The County Court at Law Number 4 of Travis County shall
1-20 give preference to cases in which family violence is alleged,
1-21 including cases under Chapter 71, Family Code.
1-22 SECTION 3. Notwithstanding Section 25.2291(a)(4), Government
1-23 Code, as amended by this Act, the County Court at Law Number 4 of
1-24 Travis County is created January 1, 1999.
2-1 SECTION 4. Notwithstanding Section 25.0009, Government Code,
2-2 the initial vacancy in the office of judge on creation of the
2-3 County Court at Law Number 4 of Travis County shall be filled by
2-4 election. The office of judge of the County Court at Law Number 4
2-5 of Travis County exists for purposes of the primary and general
2-6 election in 1998. A vacancy after the initial vacancy is filled as
2-7 provided by Section 25.0009, Government Code.
2-8 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2183 was passed by the House on May
7, 1997, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 2183 was passed by the Senate on May
19, 1997, by a viva-voce vote.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor