By Shapiro                                            S.B. No. 1824
         76R7812 JMC-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the creation of the County Criminal Court No. 11 of
 1-3     Dallas County, Texas.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 25.0591(b), Government Code, is amended
 1-6     to read as follows:
 1-7           (b)  Dallas County has the following county criminal courts:
 1-8                 (1)  County Criminal Court of Dallas County, Texas;
 1-9                 (2)  County Criminal Court No. 2 of Dallas County,
1-10     Texas;
1-11                 (3)  County Criminal Court No. 3 of Dallas County,
1-12     Texas;
1-13                 (4)  County Criminal Court Number Four of Dallas
1-14     County, Texas;
1-15                 (5)  County Criminal Court Number Five of Dallas
1-16     County, Texas;
1-17                 (6)  County Criminal Court Number 6 of Dallas County,
1-18     Texas;
1-19                 (7)  County Criminal Court Number 7 of Dallas County,
1-20     Texas;
1-21                 (8)  County Criminal Court No. 8 of Dallas County,
1-22     Texas;
1-23                 (9)  County Criminal Court No. 9 of Dallas County,
1-24     Texas; [and]
 2-1                 (10)  County Criminal Court No. 10 of Dallas County,
 2-2     Texas; and
 2-3                 (11)  County Criminal Court No. 11 of Dallas County,
 2-4     Texas.
 2-5           SECTION 2.  Section 25.0593, Government Code, is amended by
 2-6     adding Subsection (b) to read as follows:
 2-7           (b)  The County Criminal Court No. 11 of Dallas County,
 2-8     Texas,  shall give preference to cases designated by an order
 2-9     signed by a majority of  the judges of the county criminal courts
2-10     of Dallas County.
2-11           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-12           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-13     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-14     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-15     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-16     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.