1-1 By: Ratliff S.B. No. 24
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed April 9, 1997; April 10, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 April 23, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
1-5 Nays 0; April 23, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the terms of the district courts in Bowie County.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 24.105, Government Code,
1-11 is amended to read as follows:
1-12 (d) The terms of the 5th 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 Cass County on the first Mondays in February,
1-16 May, August, and November.
1-17 SECTION 2. Subsection (b), Section 24.204, Government Code,
1-18 is amended to read as follows:
1-19 (b) The terms of the 102nd District Court begin:
1-20 (1) in Bowie County on the first Mondays in January
1-21 and[, April,] July[, and October]; and
1-22 (2) in Red River County on the first Mondays in
1-23 February, May, August, and November.
1-24 SECTION 3. Subsection (d), Section 24.381, Government Code,
1-25 is amended to read as follows:
1-26 (d) The terms of the 202nd District Court begin on the first
1-27 Mondays in January and[, April,] July[, and October]. During each
1-28 term of court in Bowie County, the court may sit in Texarkana to
1-29 try, hear, and determine any civil nonjury case, may hear and
1-30 determine motions, agreements, and other nonjury civil matters that
1-31 come before the court, and may hear and determine any criminal
1-32 nonjury matters, including pleas of guilty, both felony and
1-33 misdemeanor, when a jury has been waived. This subsection does not
1-34 limit the court's power to hear those matters in Boston.
1-35 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-36 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
1-37 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-38 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-39 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-40 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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