By Brown                                         S.B. No. 304

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the creation of two judicial districts in Fort Bend

 1-3     County.

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

 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 24, Government Code, is

 1-6     amended by adding Sections 24.557 and 24.558 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 24.557.  414TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (FORT BEND COUNTY).

 1-8     The 414th Judicial District is composed of Fort Bend County.

 1-9           Sec. 24.558.  415TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (FORT BEND COUNTY).

1-10     (a)  The 415th Judicial District is composed of Fort Bend County.

1-11           (b)  The 415th Judicial District shall give preference to

1-12     family law cases.

1-13           SECTION 2.  The 414th and 415th Judicial Districts are

1-14     created and this Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

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.