By: Lucio S.B. No. 743
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the preference for hearing juvenile and family law
1-2 matters in the 197th and 206th district courts.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 24.376, Government Code,
1-5 is amended to read as follows:
1-6 (b) The 197th District Court shall give preference to
1-7 juvenile and family law matters [criminal cases].
1-8 SECTION 2. Section 24.385, Government Code, is amended to
1-9 read as follows:
1-10 Sec. 24.385. 206TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (HIDALGO COUNTY).
1-11 (a) The 206th Judicial District is composed of Hidalgo County.
1-12 (b) The 206th District Court shall give preference to
1-13 juvenile and family law matters.
1-14 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.