1-1     By:  Sadler (Senate Sponsor - Ratliff)                H.B. No. 3538

 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 15, 1997, reported favorably by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 15, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the jurisdiction of the County Court at Law of Rusk

 1-9     County.

1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 25.2032(a), Government Code, is amended

1-12     to read as follows:

1-13           (a)  In addition to the jurisdiction provided by Section

1-14     25.0003 and other law, a county court at law in Rusk County has

1-15     concurrent jurisdiction with the district court in:

1-16                 (1)  family law cases and proceedings; and

1-17                 (2)  civil cases.

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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