1-1 By: Seidlits (Senate Sponsor - Haywood) H.B. No. 3169
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 15, 1995;
1-3 May 18, 1995, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; May 24, 1995, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 24, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the statutory county courts in Grayson County.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 25.0932(a), Government Code, is amended
1-11 to read as follows:
1-12 (a) In addition to the jurisdiction provided by Section
1-13 25.0003 and other law, a county court at law in Grayson County has:
1-14 (1) original concurrent jurisdiction with the justice
1-15 court in all civil and criminal matters over which the justice
1-16 court has jurisdiction; and
1-17 (2) concurrent jurisdiction with the district court
1-18 in:
1-19 (A) civil cases in which the matter in
1-20 controversy exceeds $500 but does not exceed $350,000;
1-21 (B) family law cases and proceedings; and
1-22 (C) felony cases to conduct arraignments,
1-23 conduct pretrial hearings, and accept guilty pleas.
1-24 SECTION 2. Section 25.0932, Government Code, is amended by
1-25 adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
1-26 (g) The district court may transfer to a county court at law
1-27 any case over which the county court at law has jurisdiction under
1-28 Subsection (a)(2).
1-29 SECTION 3. Section 25.0932(h), Government Code, is amended
1-30 to read as follows:
1-31 (h) The judge of a county court at law shall be paid an
1-32 annual salary that is at least equal to $75,000 <does not exceed
1-33 the total annual salary received by the county attorney>. The
1-34 salary shall be paid out of the county treasury on order of the
1-35 commissioners court.
1-36 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-37 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
1-38 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-39 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-40 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-41 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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