By Stiles                                             H.B. No. 3190

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the holding of certain court proceedings outside the

 1-3     municipality designated as the county seat.

 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 292.002(b), Local Government Code, is

 1-6     amended to read as follows:

 1-7           (b)  The commissioners court may authorize places located in

 1-8     the county but outside the municipality designated as the county

 1-9     seat as auxiliary courts for the holding of [nonjury] court

1-10     proceedings and may designate those places as auxiliary county

1-11     seats for this purpose.

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.