1-1     By:  Hilderbran (Senate Sponsor - Fraser)             H.B. No. 3557

 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 creation of a statutory county court in Burnet

 1-9     County.

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

1-11           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 25, Government Code, is

1-12     amended by adding Sections 25.0291 and 25.0292 to read as follows:

1-13           Sec. 25.0291.  BURNET COUNTY.  Burnet County has one

1-14     statutory county court, the County Court at Law of Burnet County.

1-15           Sec. 25.0292.  BURNET COUNTY COURT AT LAW PROVISIONS.

1-16     Section 25.0003(c) does not apply to a county court at law in

1-17     Burnet County.

1-18           SECTION 2.  The County Court at Law of Burnet County is

1-19     created and this Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-20           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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