1-1  By:  Thompson of Harris (Senate Sponsor - Whitmire)    H.B. No. 791
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House April 7, 1993;
    1-3  April 13, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Jurisprudence; April 20, 1993, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 20, 1993, sent to printer.)
    1-6                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-7                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-8        Henderson          x                               
    1-9        Harris of Tarrant  x                               
   1-10        Brown              x                               
   1-11        Harris of Dallas                              x    
   1-12        Luna               x                               
   1-13        Parker                                        x    
   1-14        West               x                               
   1-15                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-16                                AN ACT
   1-17  relating to the execution of wills and codicils to wills.
   1-18        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-19        SECTION 1.  Chapter IV, Texas Probate Code, is amended by
   1-20  adding Section 69A to read as follows:
   1-21        Sec. 69A.  CHANGING WILLS.  (a)  A court may not prohibit a
   1-22  person from executing a new will or a codicil to an existing will.
   1-23        (b)  Notwithstanding Section 3(g) of this code, in this
   1-24  section, "court" means a constitutional county court, district
   1-25  court, or statutory county court, including a statutory probate
   1-26  court.
   1-27        SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-28        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-29  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-30  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-31  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-32  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-34                                                         Austin,
   1-35  Texas
   1-36                                                         April 20, 1993
   1-37  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-38  President of the Senate
   1-39  Sir:
   1-40  We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred H.B.
   1-41  No. 791, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
   1-42  to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
   1-43  pass and be printed.
   1-44                                                         Henderson,
   1-45  Chairman
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   1-47                               WITNESSES
   1-48  No witnesses appeared on H.B. No. 791.