1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the creation of a statutory county court in Matagorda
1-3 County.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 2, Chapter 551, Acts of the 74th
1-6 Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, as amended by Chapter 446, Acts
1-7 of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, is amended to read
1-8 as follows:
1-9 Sec. 2. Notwithstanding Section 25.1631, Government Code,
1-10 as added by this Act, the County Court at Law of Matagorda County
1-11 is created September 1, 2003 [2001], or on an earlier date
1-12 determined by the commissioners court by an order entered in its
1-13 minutes.
1-14 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-15 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-16 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-17 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-18 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-19 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-20 passage, and it is so enacted.
_______________________________ _______________________________
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3807 was passed by the House on April
30, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 138, Nays 0, 2 present, not
voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
I certify that H.B. No. 3807 was passed by the Senate on May
26, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
APPROVED: _____________________
Date
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Governor