By Solomons H.B. No. 2555
75R4676 SAW-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the creation of two county criminal courts in Denton
1-3 County.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 25.0631(a), Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (a) Denton County has the following statutory county courts:
1-8 (1) County Court at Law No. 1 of Denton County;
1-9 (2) County Criminal Court No. 1 of Denton County;
1-10 [and]
1-11 (3) County Criminal Court No. 2 of Denton County;
1-12 (4) County Criminal Court No. 3 of Denton County; and
1-13 (5) County Criminal Court No. 4 of Denton County.
1-14 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-15 (b) The County Criminal Court No. 3 of Denton County is
1-16 created September 1, 1997.
1-17 (c) Notwithstanding Section 25.0631(a), Government Code, as
1-18 amended by this Act, the County Criminal Court No. 4 of Denton
1-19 County is created September 1, 1998.
1-20 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.