1-1     By:  Hawley (Senate Sponsor - Zaffirini)              H.B. No. 3559

 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 12, 1997, reported favorably by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 12, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the County Court at Law of Bee County.

 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 2, Chapter 702, Acts of the 74th

1-11     Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, is amended to read as follows:

1-12           Sec. 2.  Notwithstanding Section 25.0151, Government Code, as

1-13     added by this Act, the County Court at Law of Bee County is created

1-14     January 1, 2000 [1998], or on an earlier date determined by the

1-15     commissioners court by an order entered in its minutes.

1-16           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-22     passage, and it is so enacted.

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