By Williams                                           H.B. No. 3408
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the creation of a judicial district composed of Grimes
 1-3     and Madison Counties.
 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 Section 24.569 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 24.569.  424TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (GRIMES AND MADISON
 1-8     COUNTIES).  The 424th Judicial District is composed of Grimes and
 1-9     Madison Counties.
1-10           SECTION 2.  The 424th Judicial District is created, and this
1-11     Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-12           SECTION 3.  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.