1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the creation of a statutory county court in Burnet

 1-3     County.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 25, Government Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Sections 25.0291 and 25.0292 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 25.0291.  BURNET COUNTY.  Burnet County has one

 1-8     statutory county court, the County Court at Law of Burnet County.

 1-9           Sec. 25.0292.  BURNET COUNTY COURT AT LAW PROVISIONS.

1-10     Section 25.0003(c) does not apply to a county court at law in

1-11     Burnet County.

1-12           SECTION 2.  The County Court at Law of Burnet County is

1-13     created and this Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-14           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-18     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. 3557 was passed by the House on April

         25, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3557 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