By Telford                                             H.B. No. 829
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the location where the court of appeals for the Sixth
 1-3     Court of Appeals District transacts business.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 22.207(b), Government Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           (b)  The court may transact its business in the City of
 1-8     Texarkana or the [courthouse of the] county seat of any county in
 1-9     the district as the court determines is necessary or convenient,
1-10     except that all cases originating in Bowie County shall be heard
1-11     and transacted in the City of Texarkana.
1-12           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-17     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-18     passage, and it is so enacted.