By: Ratliff S.B. No. 24
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the terms of the district courts in Bowie County.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 24.105, Government Code,
1-4 is amended to read as follows:
1-5 (d) The terms of the 5th District Court begin:
1-6 (1) in Bowie County on the first Mondays in January
1-7 and[, April,] July[, and October]; and
1-8 (2) in Cass County on the first Mondays in February,
1-9 May, August, and November.
1-10 SECTION 2. Subsection (b), Section 24.204, Government Code,
1-11 is amended to read as follows:
1-12 (b) The terms of the 102nd District Court begin:
1-13 (1) in Bowie County on the first Mondays in January
1-14 and[, April,] July[, and October]; and
1-15 (2) in Red River County on the first Mondays in
1-16 February, May, August, and November.
1-17 SECTION 3. Subsection (d), Section 24.381, Government Code,
1-18 is amended to read as follows:
1-19 (d) The terms of the 202nd District Court begin on the first
1-20 Mondays in January and[, April,] July[, and October]. During each
1-21 term of court in Bowie County, the court may sit in Texarkana to
1-22 try, hear, and determine any civil nonjury case, may hear and
1-23 determine motions, agreements, and other nonjury civil matters that
2-1 come before the court, and may hear and determine any criminal
2-2 nonjury matters, including pleas of guilty, both felony and
2-3 misdemeanor, when a jury has been waived. This subsection does not
2-4 limit the court's power to hear those matters in Boston.
2-5 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
2-6 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
2-7 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-8 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-9 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-10 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.