1-1 By: Uher (Senate Sponsor - Armbrister) H.B. No. 3807
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1999;
1-3 May 3, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Intergovernmental Relations; May 13, 1999, reported favorably by
1-5 the following vote: Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 13, 1999, sent to
1-6 printer.)
1-7 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-8 AN ACT
1-9 relating to the creation of a statutory county court in Matagorda
1-10 County.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 2, Chapter 551, Acts of the 74th
1-13 Legislature, Regular Session, 1995, as amended by Chapter 446, Acts
1-14 of the 75th Legislature, Regular Session, 1997, is amended to read
1-15 as follows:
1-16 Sec. 2. Notwithstanding Section 25.1631, Government Code,
1-17 as added by this Act, the County Court at Law of Matagorda County
1-18 is created September 1, 2003 [2001], or on an earlier date
1-19 determined by the commissioners court by an order entered in its
1-20 minutes.
1-21 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the
1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-26 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-27 passage, and it is so enacted.
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