1-1 By: Counts, Hardcastle (Senate Sponsor - Haywood) H.B. No. 2060
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 1999;
1-3 April 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; May 11, 1999, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 11, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the terms of court of the 50th District Court.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 24.152(c), Government Code, is amended to
1-11 read as follows:
1-12 (c) The terms of the 50th District Court in each county
1-13 begin[:]
1-14 [(1) in Baylor County] on the first Mondays in January
1-15 and September[;]
1-16 [(2) in Cottle County on the first Mondays in April
1-17 and December;]
1-18 [(3) in King County on the first Mondays in March and
1-19 November; and]
1-20 [(4) in Knox County on the first Mondays in February
1-21 and October].
1-22 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-23 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-25 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-26 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-27 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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