AN ACT
1-1 relating to the creation of a county court at law in Fort Bend
1-2 County.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 25.0811, Government Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 Sec. 25.0811. FORT BEND COUNTY. Fort Bend County has the
1-7 following statutory county courts:
1-8 (1) County Court at Law No. 1 of Fort Bend County;
1-9 (2) County Court at Law No. 2 of Fort Bend County;
1-10 [and]
1-11 (3) County Court at Law No. 3 of Fort Bend County; and
1-12 (4) County Court at Law No. 4 of Fort Bend County.
1-13 SECTION 2. County Court at Law No. 4 of Fort Bend County is
1-14 created and this Act takes effect January 1, 2001.
1-15 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-16 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-17 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-18 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-19 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 135 passed the Senate on
April 19, 1999, by the following vote: Yeas 30, Nays 0; and that
the Senate concurred in House amendment on May 17, 1999, by a
viva-voce vote.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 135 passed the House, with
amendment, on May 11, 1999, by a non-record vote.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor