1-1     By:  Oliveira (Senate Sponsor - Lucio)                H.B. No. 3545

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1997;

 1-3     May 6, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Jurisprudence; May 17, 1997, reported favorably, as amended, by the

 1-5     following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 17, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6     COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                By:  Ogden

 1-7     Strike Section 3 of H.B. 3545 and replace as follows:

 1-8           Section 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

 1-9                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

1-10                                   AN ACT

1-11     relating to the statutory county courts in Cameron County.

1-12           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-13           SECTION 1.  Section 25.0331(a), Government Code, is amended

1-14     to read as follows:

1-15           (a)  Cameron County has the following statutory county

1-16     courts:

1-17                 (1)  County Court at Law No. 1 of Cameron County; [and]

1-18                 (2)  County Court at Law No. 2 of Cameron County; and

1-19                 (3)  County Court at Law No. 3 of Cameron County.

1-20           SECTION 2.  Section 25.0332(k), Government Code, is amended

1-21     to read as follows:

1-22           (k)  The county sheriff shall, either in person or by deputy,

1-23     attend the County Court at Law No. 1 of Cameron County as required

1-24     by the judge.  The county sheriff serves the other county courts at

1-25     law [County Court at Law No. 2 of Cameron County] as provided by

1-26     Section 25.0010(b).

1-27           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.

1-28           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-29     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-30     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-31     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-32     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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