1-1 By: Barrientos S.B. No. 1314
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 13, 1997; March 18, 1997, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 April 3, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 7,
1-5 Nays 0; April 3, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to creation of the County Court at Law Number 4 of Travis
1-9 County.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (a), Section 25.2291, Government Code,
1-12 is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (a) Travis County has the following statutory county courts:
1-14 (1) County Court at Law No. 1 of Travis County, Texas;
1-15 (2) County Court at Law No. 2 of Travis County, Texas;
1-16 (3) County Court at Law No. 3 of Travis County, Texas;
1-17 (4) County Court at Law Number 4 of Travis County;
1-18 (5) County Court at Law Number 5 of Travis County;
1-19 (6) [(5)] The County Court at Law Number 6 of Travis
1-20 County; and
1-21 (7) [(6)] The County Court at Law Number 7 of Travis
1-22 County.
1-23 SECTION 2. Section 25.2292, Government Code, is amended by
1-24 adding Subsection (c) to read as follows:
1-25 (c) The County Court at Law Number 4 of Travis County shall
1-26 give preference to cases in which family violence is alleged,
1-27 including cases under Chapter 71, Family Code.
1-28 SECTION 3. Notwithstanding Subdivision (4), Subsection (a),
1-29 Section 25.2291, Government Code, as amended by this Act, the
1-30 County Court at Law Number 4 of Travis County is created January 1,
1-31 1999.
1-32 SECTION 4. Notwithstanding Section 25.0009, Government Code,
1-33 the initial vacancy in the office of judge on creation of the
1-34 County Court at Law Number 4 of Travis County shall be filled by
1-35 election. The office of judge of the County Court at Law Number 4
1-36 of Travis County exists for purposes of the primary and general
1-37 election in 1998. A vacancy after the initial vacancy is filled as
1-38 provided by Section 25.0009, Government Code.
1-39 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
1-40 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-41 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-42 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-43 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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