1-1 By: Wentworth S.B. No. 970
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 5, 1997; March 10, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 April 9, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
1-5 Nays 0; April 9, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to certain district courts in Bexar County.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Subsection (d), Section 24.139, Government Code,
1-11 is amended to read as follows:
1-12 (d) The 144th, 175th, 186th, 187th, 226th, 227th, [289th,]
1-13 and 290th district courts shall give preference to criminal cases.
1-14 The terms of those courts begin on the first Mondays in January
1-15 and[, March, May,] July[, September, and November]. Each term
1-16 continues until the court has disposed of the business for that
1-17 term.
1-18 SECTION 2. Subsection (c), Section 24.466, Government Code,
1-19 is amended to read as follows:
1-20 (c) The terms of the 289th District Court begin on the first
1-21 Mondays in January and[, March, May,] July[, September, and
1-22 November]. Each term continues until the court has disposed of the
1-23 business for that term.
1-24 SECTION 3. Sections 24.366(c), 24.404(c), 24.405(c), and
1-25 24.467(c), Government Code, are repealed.
1-26 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-27 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
1-28 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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