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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