H.B. No. 791
    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.