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.