By Counts, Hardcastle                                 H.B. No. 2060
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the terms of court of the 50th District Court.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 24.152(c), Government Code, is amended to
 1-5     read as follows:
 1-6           (c)  The terms of the 50th District Court in each county
 1-7     begin[:]
 1-8                 [(1)  in Baylor County] on the first Mondays in January
 1-9     and September[;]
1-10                 [(2)  in Cottle County on the first Mondays in April
1-11     and December;]
1-12                 [(3)  in King County on the first Mondays in March and
1-13     November; and]
1-14                 [(4)  in Knox County on the first Mondays in February
1-15     and October].
1-16           SECTION 2.  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.