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.