By:  Nelson                                            S.B. No. 376
         99S0681/1                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                       AN ACT
 1-1     relating to the statutory county courts in Denton County.
 1-2           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-3           SECTION 1.  Section 25.0631, Government Code, is amended by
 1-4     amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (d) to read as
 1-5     follows:
 1-6           (a)  Denton County has the following statutory county courts:
 1-7                 (1)  County Court at Law No. 1 of Denton County;
 1-8                 (2)  County Criminal Court No. 1 of Denton County;
 1-9                 (3)  County Criminal Court No. 2 of Denton County;
1-10                 (4)  County Criminal Court No. 3 of Denton County;
1-11     [and]
1-12                 (5)  County Criminal Court No. 4 of Denton County; and
1-13                 (6)  County Criminal Court No. 5 of Denton County.
1-14           (d)  Section 25.0006 does not apply to the statutory county
1-15     courts of Denton County.
1-16           SECTION 2.  (a)  This Act takes effect October 1, 2000.
1-17           (b)  The County Criminal Court No. 5 of Denton County is
1-18     created October 1, 2000.
1-19           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-20     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.