73R3361 CLG-D By Thompson of Harris H.B. No. 791 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the execution of wills and codicils to wills. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Chapter IV, Texas Probate Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Section 69A to read as follows: 1-6 Sec. 69A. CHANGING WILLS. (a) A court may not prohibit a 1-7 person from executing a new will or a codicil to an existing will. 1-8 (b) Notwithstanding Section 3(g) of this code, in this 1-9 section, "court" means a constitutional county court, district 1-10 court, or statutory county court, including a statutory probate 1-11 court. 1-12 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993. 1-13 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-14 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-15 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-16 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-17 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.