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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