1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the jurisdiction of the County Court at Law of Rusk

 1-3     County.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 25.2032(a), Government Code, is amended

 1-6     to read as follows:

 1-7           (a)  In addition to the jurisdiction provided by Section

 1-8     25.0003 and other law, a county court at law in Rusk County has

 1-9     concurrent jurisdiction with the district court in:

1-10                 (1)  family law cases and proceedings; and

1-11                 (2)  civil cases.

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.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3538 was passed by the House on April

         25, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 145, Nays 0, 3 present, not

         voting.

                                             _______________________________

                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3538 was passed by the Senate on May

         26, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor