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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