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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