1-1     By:  Shapiro, Haywood                                  S.B. No. 181
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed January 19, 1999; January 28, 1999,
 1-3     read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
 1-4     Relations; February 18, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; February 18, 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 Collin County.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 25.0451, Government Code,  is  amended
1-11     to  read  as follows:
1-12           Sec. 25.0451.  COLLIN COUNTY.  Collin County has the
1-13     following statutory county courts:
1-14                 (1)  County Court at Law No. 1 of Collin County;
1-15                 (2)  County Court at Law No. 2 of Collin County;
1-16                 (3)  County Court at Law No. 3 of Collin County; [and]
1-17                 (4)  County Court at Law No. 4 of Collin County; and
1-18                 (5)  County Court at Law No. 5 of Collin County.
1-19           SECTION 2.  The County Court at Law No. 5 of Collin County is
1-20     created and this Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-21           SECTION 3.  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.
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