By Cain                                          S.B. No. 824

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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the statutory county courts of Smith County.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 25.2141(a), Government Code, is amended

 1-5     to read as follows:

 1-6           (a)  Smith County has the following statutory courts:

 1-7                 (1)  County Court at Law of Smith County; [and]

 1-8                 (2)  County Court at Law No. 2 of Smith County; and

 1-9                 (3)  County Court at Law No. 3 of Smith County.

1-10           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-11     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-12     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-13     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-14     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-15     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-16     passage, and it is so enacted.