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.