1-1 By: Wentworth S.B. No. 797
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed February 20, 2001; February 21, 2001,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; March 14, 2001, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 7, Nays 0; March 14, 2001, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the creation of an additional county court at law in
1-9 Guadalupe County.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 25.0961, Government Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 25.0961. GUADALUPE COUNTY. (a) Guadalupe County has
1-14 the following [one] statutory county courts:
1-15 (1) [court,] the County Court at Law of Guadalupe
1-16 County; and
1-17 (2) the County Court at Law No. 2 of Guadalupe County.
1-18 (b) A county court at law in [The County Court at Law of]
1-19 Guadalupe County sits in Seguin.
1-20 SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 25.0961, Government Code,
1-21 as amended by this Act, the County Court at Law No. 2 of Guadalupe
1-22 County is created January 1, 2003, or on an earlier date determined
1-23 by the commissioners court by an order entered in its minutes.
1-24 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
1-25 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
1-26 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
1-27 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
1-28 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.
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