By McCall, Madden                                     H.B. No. 1481
       74R3061 RJA-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to the county courts at law of Collin County.
    1-3        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-4        SECTION 1.  Section 25.0451, Government Code, is amended to
    1-5  read as follows:
    1-6        Sec. 25.0451.  Collin County.  Collin County has the
    1-7  following statutory county courts:
    1-8              (1)  County Court at Law No. 1 of Collin County;
    1-9              (2)  County Court at Law No. 2 of Collin County; <and>
   1-10              (3)  County Court at Law No. 3 of Collin County; and
   1-11              (4)  County Court at Law No. 4 of Collin County.
   1-12        SECTION 2.  Section 25.0452, Government Code, is amended by
   1-13  adding Subsection (a) to read as follows:
   1-14        (a)  In addition to the jurisdiction provided by Section
   1-15  25.0003 and other law, a county court at law in Collin County has
   1-16  the probate jurisdiction provided by Section 25.0021 for statutory
   1-17  probate courts.
   1-18        SECTION 3.  Notwithstanding Section 25.0451(4), Government
   1-19  Code, as added by this Act, the County Court at Law No. 4 of Collin
   1-20  County is created October 1, 1995, or on an earlier date determined
   1-21  by the commissioners court by an order entered in its minutes.
   1-22        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-23        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-24  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-1  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
    2-2  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
    2-3  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
    2-4                       COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1
    2-5        (1)  Amend House Bill 1481, on page 1, line 13 by striking
    2-6  "Subsection (a)" and substituting "Subsections (a) and (b)".
    2-7        (2)  Amend House Bill 1481, on page 1, between lines 17 and
    2-8  18, by inserting the following:
    2-9        (b)  A person sitting in the capacity of a judge in County
   2-10  Court at Law No.  4 of Collin County may not sit as an assigned
   2-11  judge in Bexar, Dallas, Ector, Fort Bend, Harris, Jefferson,
   2-12  Lubbock, Midland, Tarrant, or Travis County.
   2-13                                                              Goodman