1-1 By: Greenberg, Naishtat, Maxey H.B. No. 2183
1-2 (Senate Sponsor - Barrientos)
1-3 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1997;
1-4 May 9, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-5 Jurisprudence; May 15, 1997, reported favorably by the following
1-6 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 15, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to creation of the County Court at Law Number 4 of Travis
1-10 County.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 25.2291(a), Government Code, is amended
1-13 to read as follows:
1-14 (a) Travis County has the following statutory county courts:
1-15 (1) County Court at Law No. 1 of Travis County, Texas;
1-16 (2) County Court at Law No. 2 of Travis County, Texas;
1-17 (3) County Court at Law No. 3 of Travis County, Texas;
1-18 (4) County Court at Law Number 4 of Travis County;
1-19 (5) County Court at Law Number 5 of Travis County;
1-20 (6) [(5)] The County Court at Law Number 6 of Travis
1-21 County; and
1-22 (7) [(6)] The County Court at Law Number 7 of Travis
1-23 County.
1-24 SECTION 2. Section 25.2292, Government Code, is amended by
1-25 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-26 (c) The County Court at Law Number 4 of Travis County shall
1-27 give preference to cases in which family violence is alleged,
1-28 including cases under Chapter 71, Family Code.
1-29 SECTION 3. Notwithstanding Section 25.2291(a)(4), Government
1-30 Code, as amended by this Act, the County Court at Law Number 4 of
1-31 Travis County is created January 1, 1999.
1-32 SECTION 4. Notwithstanding Section 25.0009, Government Code,
1-33 the initial vacancy in the office of judge on creation of the
1-34 County Court at Law Number 4 of Travis County shall be filled by
1-35 election. The office of judge of the County Court at Law Number 4
1-36 of Travis County exists for purposes of the primary and general
1-37 election in 1998. A vacancy after the initial vacancy is filled as
1-38 provided by Section 25.0009, Government Code.
1-39 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
1-40 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-41 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-42 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-43 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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