1-1  By:  Hartnett (Senate Sponsor - Harris of Dallas)     H.B. No. 2849
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 3, 1993;
    1-3  May 4, 1993, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Intergovernmental Relations; May 20, 1993, reported favorably by
    1-5  the following vote:  Yeas 10, Nays 0; May 20, 1993, sent to
    1-6  printer.)
    1-7                            COMMITTEE VOTE
    1-8                          Yea     Nay      PNV      Absent 
    1-9        Armbrister         x                               
   1-10        Leedom             x                               
   1-11        Carriker           x                               
   1-12        Henderson          x                               
   1-13        Madla              x                               
   1-14        Moncrief           x                               
   1-15        Patterson          x                               
   1-16        Rosson             x                               
   1-17        Shapiro                                       x    
   1-18        Wentworth          x                               
   1-19        Whitmire           x                               
   1-20                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-21                                AN ACT
   1-22  relating to the use of certain probate court fees in Dallas County.
   1-23        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-24        SECTION 1.  Section 25.0595, Government Code, is amended by
   1-25  adding Subsection (j) to read as follows:
   1-26        (j)  In addition to the uses authorized by Section
   1-27  118.064(b), Local Government Code, fees collected under Section
   1-28  118.052(2)(A)(vi), Local Government Code, may be used by Dallas
   1-29  County for providing staff for the statutory probate courts and for
   1-30  court-related purposes for the support of the statutory probate
   1-31  courts.  In determining if the fee produces more revenue than
   1-32  required as provided by Section 118.064(c), Local Government Code,
   1-33  the commissioners court shall include the uses authorized by this
   1-34  subsection.
   1-35        SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-36  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-37  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-38  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-39  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   1-40  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   1-41  passage, and it is so enacted.
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   1-43                                                         Austin,
   1-44  Texas
   1-45                                                         May 20, 1993
   1-46  Hon. Bob Bullock
   1-47  President of the Senate
   1-48  Sir:
   1-49  We, your Committee on Intergovernmental Relations to which was
   1-50  referred H.B. No. 2849, have had the same under consideration, and
   1-51  I am instructed to report it back to the Senate with the
   1-52  recommendation that it do pass and be printed.
   1-53                                                         Armbrister,
   1-54  Chairman
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   1-56                               WITNESSES
   1-57                                                  FOR   AGAINST  ON
   1-58  ___________________________________________________________________
   1-59  Name:  Craig Pardue                              x
   1-60  Representing:  Dallas County
   1-61  City:  Dallas
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   1-63  Name:  Jim Jackson                               x
   1-64  Representing:  Dallas County Comm. Ct.
   1-65  City:  Dallas
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