1-1     By:  Brown                                             S.B. No. 135
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 8, 1999; January 28, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; April 8, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
 1-5     Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 8, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the creation of a county court at law in Fort Bend
 1-9     County.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 25.0811, Government Code, is amended to
1-12     read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 25.0811.  FORT BEND COUNTY.  Fort Bend County has the
1-14     following statutory county courts:
1-15                 (1)  County Court at Law No. 1 of Fort Bend County;
1-16                 (2)  County Court at Law No. 2 of Fort Bend County;
1-17     [and]
1-18                 (3)  County Court at Law No. 3 of Fort Bend County; and
1-19                 (4)  County Court at Law No. 4 of Fort Bend County.
1-20           SECTION 2.  County Court at Law No. 4 of Fort Bend County is
1-21     created and this Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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