75R10198 DRH-F
By Stiles H.B. No. 3190
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3190:
By Chisum C.S.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. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.