1-1 By: Lucio S.B. No. 743
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 24, 1997; February 26, 1997,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 April 9, 1997, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
1-5 Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 1; April 9, 1997,
1-6 sent to printer.)
1-7 COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 743 By: Ogden
1-8 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-9 AN ACT
1-10 relating to the preference for hearing juvenile and family law
1-11 matters in the 197th and 206th district courts.
1-12 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-13 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 24.376, Government Code,
1-14 is amended to read as follows:
1-15 (b) The 197th District Court shall give preference to
1-16 juvenile and family law matters [criminal cases].
1-17 SECTION 2. Section 24.385, Government Code, is amended to
1-18 read as follows:
1-19 Sec. 24.385. 206TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (HIDALGO COUNTY).
1-20 (a) The 206th Judicial District is composed of Hidalgo County.
1-21 (b) The 206th District Court shall give preference to
1-22 juvenile and family law matters.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-28 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-29 passage, and it is so enacted.
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