1-1 By: Uher (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister) H.B. No. 2734
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 1997;
1-3 April 29, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; May 6, 1997, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 6, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the creation of a statutory county court in Matagorda
1-9 County.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 2, Chapter 551, Acts of the 74th
1-12 Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, is amended to read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 2. Notwithstanding Section 25.1631, Government Code, as
1-14 added by this Act, the County Court at Law of Matagorda County is
1-15 created September 1, 2001 [January 1, 1998], or on an earlier date
1-16 determined by the commissioners court by an order entered in its
1-17 minutes.
1-18 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-19 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-20 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-21 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-22 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-23 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-24 passage, and it is so enacted.
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