1-1  By:  Hilderbran (Senate Sponsor - Sims)                H.B. No. 974
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House March 30, 1993;
    1-3  March 31, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Jurisprudence; April 20, 1993, reported favorably by the following
    1-5  vote:  Yeas 4, 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 County Court at Law of Kerr County.
   1-18        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-19        SECTION 1.  Sections 25.1352(b) and (d), Government Code, are
   1-20  amended to read as follows:
   1-21        (b)  In addition to the jurisdiction provided by Section
   1-22  25.0003 and other law, a county court at law in Kerr County has:
   1-23              (1)  concurrent jurisdiction with the district court in
   1-24  proceedings under the <Titles 1, 2, and 4,> Family Code; and
   1-25              (2)  concurrent with the county court, the jurisdiction
   1-26  of a probate court in proceedings under Chapter 462, Health and
   1-27  Safety Code, and Subtitle C, Title 7, Health and Safety Code.
   1-28        (d)  A <The terms of a> county court at law has a term of
   1-29  court that begins January 1 and ends December 31 of each year <are
   1-30  the same as those of the county court>.
   1-31        SECTION 2.  Sections 25.1352(a), (c), (f), (g), (i), (j), and
   1-32  (k), Government Code, are repealed.
   1-33        SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1993.
   1-34        SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-35  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-36  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-37  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-38  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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   1-40                                                         Austin,
   1-41  Texas
   1-42                                                         April 20, 1993
   1-43  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-44  President of the Senate
   1-45  Sir:
   1-46  We, your Committee on Jurisprudence to which was referred H.B.
   1-47  No. 974, have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed
   1-48  to report it back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do
   1-49  pass and be printed.
   1-50                                                         Henderson,
   1-51  Chairman
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   1-53                               WITNESSES