1-1 By: Solomons (Senate Sponsor - Nelson) H.B. No. 2555
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 21, 1997;
1-3 April 23, 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 creation of two county criminal courts in Denton
1-9 County.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 25.0631(a), Government Code, is amended
1-12 to read as follows:
1-13 (a) Denton County has the following statutory county courts:
1-14 (1) County Court at Law No. 1 of Denton County;
1-15 (2) County Criminal Court No. 1 of Denton County;
1-16 [and]
1-17 (3) County Criminal Court No. 2 of Denton County;
1-18 (4) County Criminal Court No. 3 of Denton County; and
1-19 (5) County Criminal Court No. 4 of Denton County.
1-20 SECTION 2. (a) This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-21 (b) The County Criminal Court No. 3 of Denton County is
1-22 created September 1, 1997.
1-23 (c) Notwithstanding Section 25.0631(a), Government Code, as
1-24 amended by this Act, the County Criminal Court No. 4 of Denton
1-25 County is created September 1, 1998.
1-26 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-27 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-28 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-29 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-30 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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