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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