By Chavez H.B. No. 1253 76R4831 JMC-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the creation of two judicial districts in El Paso 1-3 County. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 24, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Sections 24.535 and 24.563 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 24.535. 390TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (EL PASO COUNTY). (a) 1-8 The 390th Judicial District is composed of El Paso County. 1-9 (b) The 390th District Court shall give preference to family 1-10 law matters. 1-11 Sec. 24.563. 418TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (EL PASO COUNTY). (a) 1-12 The 418th Judicial District is composed of El Paso County. 1-13 (b) The 418th District Court shall give preference to felony 1-14 criminal law matters. 1-15 SECTION 2. The 390th and 418th judicial districts are 1-16 created and this Act takes effect September 1, 1999. 1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.