1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the statutory county courts in Cameron County.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 25.0331(a), Government Code, is amended

 1-5     to read as follows:

 1-6           (a)  Cameron County has the following statutory county

 1-7     courts:

 1-8                 (1)  County Court at Law No. 1 of Cameron County; [and]

 1-9                 (2)  County Court at Law No. 2 of Cameron County; and

1-10                 (3)  County Court at Law No. 3 of Cameron County.

1-11           SECTION 2.  Section 25.0332(k), Government Code, is amended

1-12     to read as follows:

1-13           (k)  The county sheriff shall, either in person or by deputy,

1-14     attend the County Court at Law No. 1 of Cameron County as required

1-15     by the judge.  The county sheriff serves the other county courts at

1-16     law [County Court at Law No. 2 of Cameron County] as provided by

1-17     Section 25.0010(b).

1-18           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-19           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3545 was passed by the House on May

         2, 1997, by a non-record vote; and that the House concurred in

         Senate amendments to H.B. No. 3545 on May 29, 1997, by a non-record

         vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3545 was passed by the Senate, with

         amendments, 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