By Shapleigh                                     S.B. No. 317

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the creation of a judicial district composed of  El

 1-3     Paso 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 Section 24.552 to read as follows:

 1-7           Sec. 24.552.  408TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (EL PASO COUNTY).  (a)

 1-8     The 408th Judicial District is composed of El Paso County.

 1-9           (b)  The 408th District Court shall give preference to family

1-10     law matters.

1-11           SECTION 2.  The 408th Judicial District is created, and this

1-12     Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-13           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-14     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-15     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-16     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-17     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.