1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the County Court at Law of Bee County.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 2, Chapter 702, Acts of the 74th

 1-5     Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, is amended to read as follows:

 1-6           Sec. 2.  Notwithstanding Section 25.0151, Government Code, as

 1-7     added by this Act, the County Court at Law of Bee County is created

 1-8     January 1, 2000 [1998], or on an earlier date determined by the

 1-9     commissioners court by an order entered in its minutes.

1-10           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-15     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-16     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3559 was passed by the House on April

         25, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 145, Nays 0, 3 present, not

         voting.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3559 was passed by the Senate on May

         19, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor