By:  Smithee (Senate Sponsor - Seliger)                           H.B. No. 593
	(In the Senate - Received from the House March 29, 2005; 
March 30, 2005, read first time and referred to Committee on 
Jurisprudence; April 28, 2005, reported favorably by the following 
vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; April 28, 2005, sent to printer.)


A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT


relating to the terms of court of the 47th Judicial District.               
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 24.149(c), Government Code, is amended 
to read as follows:
	(c)  The terms of the 47th District Court begin:                               
		(1)  in Armstrong County on the first [10th Monday 
after the fourth] Monday in January, notwithstanding Section 
24.012(a) [and the 11th Monday after the first Monday in August];
		(2)  in Potter County on the fourth Monday in January, 
the 15th Monday after the fourth Monday in January, the first Monday 
in August, and the 14th Monday after the first Monday in August; and
		(3)  in Randall County on the first Monday in January, 
the 16th Monday after the first Monday in January, and the eighth 
Monday after the first Monday in August.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2006.                             



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