1-1 By: Counts (Senate Sponsor - Fraser) H.B. No. 3605
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 16, 1997;
1-3 May 16, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; May 18, 1997, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 18, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the assignment of the judge of the County Court at Law
1-9 of Nolan County.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 25.1792(n), Government Code, is amended
1-12 to read as follows:
1-13 (n) Sections 25.0006, [and] 25.0008, and 74.054(b) do not
1-14 apply to a county court at law in Nolan County.
1-15 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-16 applies to an assignment of the judge of the County Court at Law of
1-17 Nolan County made on or after that date. An assignment of the judge
1-18 of the County Court at Law of Nolan County made before September 1,
1-19 1997, is governed by the law in effect at the time the assignment
1-20 was made and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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