By Shapleigh                                           S.B. No. 475
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the creation of two judicial districts in El Paso
 1-3     County.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Subchapter C, Chapter 24, Government Code, is
 1-6     amended by adding Sections 24.535 and 24.563 to read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 24.535.  390TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (EL PASO COUNTY).  (a)
 1-8     The 390th Judicial District is composed of El Paso County.
 1-9           (b)  The 390th District Court shall give preference to family
1-10     law matters.
1-11           Sec. 24.563.  418TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT (EL PASO COUNTY).  (a)
1-12     The 418th Judicial District is composed of El Paso County.
1-13           (b)  The 418th District Court shall give preference to felony
1-14     criminal law matters.
1-15           SECTION 2.  The 390th and 418th judicial districts are
1-16     created and this Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-17           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.