1-1     By:  McReynolds (Senate Sponsor - Nixon)              H.B. No. 2313
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
 1-3     April 27, 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 appointment of bailiffs in Angelina County.               
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 53.001(a), Government Code, is amended to
1-11     read as follows:
1-12           (a)  The judges of the 22nd, 30th, 70th, 71st, 78th, 89th,
1-13     161st, and 341st district courts, the judges of the district courts
1-14     having  jurisdiction in Angelina County, the judges of the district
1-15     courts having jurisdiction in Taylor County, the judges of the
1-16     county courts at law of Taylor County, and the judge of the County
1-17     Court of Harrison County shall each appoint a bailiff.
1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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