By Seidlits                                           H.B. No. 1411
       74R5338 RJA-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the statutory county courts in Grayson County.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 25.0932(a), Government Code, is amended
    1-5  to read as follows:
    1-6        (a)  In addition to the jurisdiction provided by Section
    1-7  25.0003 and other law, a county court at law in Grayson County has:
    1-8              (1)  original concurrent jurisdiction with the justice
    1-9  court in all civil and criminal matters over which the justice
   1-10  court has jurisdiction; and
   1-11              (2)  concurrent jurisdiction with the district court
   1-12  in:
   1-13                    (A)  civil cases in which the matter in
   1-14  controversy exceeds $500 but does not exceed $350,000;
   1-15                    (B)  family law cases and proceedings; and
   1-16                    (C)  felony cases to conduct arraignments,
   1-17  conduct pretrial hearings, and accept guilty pleas.
   1-18        SECTION 2.  Section 25.0932, Government Code, is amended by
   1-19  adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
   1-20        (g)  The district court may transfer to a county court at law
   1-21  any case over which the county court at law has jurisdiction under
   1-22  Subsection (a)(2).
   1-23        SECTION 3.  Section 25.0932(h), Government Code, is amended
   1-24  to read as follows:
    2-1        (h)  The judge of a county court at law shall be paid an
    2-2  annual salary that is set by the commissioners court at an amount
    2-3  that is at least equal to the amount that is 85 percent of <does
    2-4  not exceed> the total annual salary, including contributions and
    2-5  supplements, received by the district judge <county attorney>.  The
    2-6  salary shall be paid out of the county treasury on order of the
    2-7  commissioners court.
    2-8        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
    2-9        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-10  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-11  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-12  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-13  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.