By Uher H.B. No. 2734
75R4970 MLS-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the creation of a statutory county court in Matagorda
1-3 County.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 2, Chapter 551, Acts of the 74th
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, is amended to read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 2. Notwithstanding Section 25.1631, Government Code, as
1-8 added by this Act, the County Court at Law of Matagorda County is
1-9 created September 1, 2001 [January 1, 1998], or on an earlier date
1-10 determined by the commissioners court by an order entered in its
1-11 minutes.
1-12 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18 passage, and it is so enacted.