By:  Nelson                                            S.B. No. 966

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

                                       AN ACT

 1-1     relating to the creation of two county criminal courts in Denton

 1-2     County.

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

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 25.0631, Government Code,

 1-5     is amended to read as follows:

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

 1-7                 (1)  County Court at Law No. 1 of Denton County;

 1-8                 (2)  County Criminal Court No. 1 of Denton County;

 1-9     [and]

1-10                 (3)  County Criminal Court No. 2 of Denton County;

1-11                 (4)  County Criminal Court No. 3 of Denton County; and

1-12                 (5)  County Criminal Court No. 4 of Denton County.

1-13           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-14           (b)  The County Criminal Court No. 3 of Denton County is

1-15     created September 1, 1997.

1-16           (c)  Notwithstanding Subsection (a), Section 25.0631,

1-17     Government Code, as amended by this Act, the County Criminal Court

1-18     No. 4 of Denton County is created September 1, 1998.

1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.