1-1  By:  McCall, Madden (Senate Sponsor - Shapiro)        H.B. No. 1481
    1-2        (In the Senate - Received from the House May 8, 1995;
    1-3  May 9, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
    1-4  Jurisprudence; May 16, 1995, reported favorably, as amended, by the
    1-5  following vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 16, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-6  COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                            By:  Henderson
    1-7  Amend H.B. No. 1481 by striking SECTION 2 of the bill (House
    1-8  Engrossment, page 1, lines 12-21) and substituting the following:
    1-9        SECTION 2.  Section 25.0452, Government Code, is amended by
   1-10  adding Subsection (h) to read as follows:
   1-11        (h)  A person sitting in the capacity of a judge in County
   1-12  Court at Law No. 4 of Collin County may not sit as an assigned
   1-13  judge in Bexar, Dallas, Ector, Fort Bend, Harris, Jefferson,
   1-14  Lubbock, Midland, Tarrant, or Travis County.
   1-15                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
   1-16                                AN ACT
   1-17  relating to the county courts at law of Collin County.
   1-18        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-19        SECTION 1.  Section 25.0451, Government Code, is amended to
   1-20  read as follows:
   1-21        Sec. 25.0451.  Collin County.  Collin County has the
   1-22  following statutory county courts:
   1-23              (1)  County Court at Law No. 1 of Collin County;
   1-24              (2)  County Court at Law No. 2 of Collin County; <and>
   1-25              (3)  County Court at Law No. 3 of Collin County; and
   1-26              (4)  County Court at Law No. 4 of Collin County.
   1-27        SECTION 2.  Section 25.0452, Government Code, is amended by
   1-28  adding Subsections (a) and (b) to read as follows:
   1-29        (a)  In addition to the jurisdiction provided by Section
   1-30  25.0003 and other law, a county court at law in Collin County has
   1-31  the probate jurisdiction provided by Section 25.0021 for statutory
   1-32  probate courts.
   1-33        (b)  A person sitting in the capacity of a judge in County
   1-34  Court at Law No. 4 of Collin County may not sit as an assigned
   1-35  judge in Bexar, Dallas, Ector, Fort Bend, Harris, Jefferson,
   1-36  Lubbock, Midland, Tarrant, or Travis County.
   1-37        SECTION 3.  Notwithstanding Section 25.0451(4), Government
   1-38  Code, as added by this Act, the County Court at Law No. 4 of Collin
   1-39  County is created October 1, 1995, or on an earlier date determined
   1-40  by the commissioners court by an order entered in its minutes.
   1-41        SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-42        SECTION 5.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-43  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-44  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-45  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-46  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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