1-1 By: Shapiro S.B. No. 1824
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed March 18, 1999; March 22, 1999, read
1-3 first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; April 8, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:
1-5 Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 8, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the creation of the County Criminal Court No. 11 of
1-9 Dallas County, Texas.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Subsection (b), Section 25.0591, Government Code,
1-12 is amended to read as follows:
1-13 (b) Dallas County has the following county criminal courts:
1-14 (1) County Criminal Court of Dallas County, Texas;
1-15 (2) County Criminal Court No. 2 of Dallas County,
1-16 Texas;
1-17 (3) County Criminal Court No. 3 of Dallas County,
1-18 Texas;
1-19 (4) County Criminal Court Number Four of Dallas
1-20 County, Texas;
1-21 (5) County Criminal Court Number Five of Dallas
1-22 County, Texas;
1-23 (6) County Criminal Court Number 6 of Dallas County,
1-24 Texas;
1-25 (7) County Criminal Court Number 7 of Dallas County,
1-26 Texas;
1-27 (8) County Criminal Court No. 8 of Dallas County,
1-28 Texas;
1-29 (9) County Criminal Court No. 9 of Dallas County,
1-30 Texas; [and]
1-31 (10) County Criminal Court No. 10 of Dallas County,
1-32 Texas; and
1-33 (11) County Criminal Court No. 11 of Dallas County,
1-34 Texas.
1-35 SECTION 2. Section 25.0593, Government Code, is amended by
1-36 adding Subsection (b) to read as follows:
1-37 (b) The County Criminal Court No. 11 of Dallas County,
1-38 Texas, shall give preference to cases designated by an order signed
1-39 by a majority of the judges of the county criminal courts of Dallas
1-40 County.
1-41 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-42 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-43 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-44 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-45 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-46 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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