73R6485 RJA-F
          By Hartnett                                           H.B. No. 2849
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the use of certain probate court fees in Dallas County.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 25.0595, Government Code, is amended by
    1-5  adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
    1-6        (j)  In addition to the uses authorized by Section
    1-7  118.064(b), Local Government Code, fees collected under Section
    1-8  118.052(2)(A)(vi), Local Government Code, may be used by Dallas
    1-9  County for providing staff for the statutory probate courts and for
   1-10  court-related purposes for the support of the statutory probate
   1-11  courts.  In determining if the fee produces more revenue than
   1-12  required as provided by Section 118.064(c), Local Government Code,
   1-13  the commissioners court shall include the uses authorized by this
   1-14  subsection.
   1-15        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-16  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-17  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-18  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-19  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-20  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-21  passage, and it is so enacted.