By Seidlits H.B. No. 3169
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.