1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the assignment of the judge of the County Court at Law

 1-3     of Nolan County.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 25.1792(n), Government Code, is amended

 1-6     to read as follows:

 1-7           (n)  Sections 25.0006, [and] 25.0008, and 74.054(b) do not

 1-8     apply to a county court at law in Nolan County.

 1-9           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and

1-10     applies to an assignment of the judge of the County Court at Law of

1-11     Nolan County made on or after that date. An assignment of the judge

1-12     of the County Court at Law of Nolan County made before September 1,

1-13     1997, is governed by the law in effect at the time the assignment

1-14     was made and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.

1-15           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-16     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-17     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-18     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-19     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. 3605 was passed by the House on May

         16, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 3605 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