By:  Lucio                                             S.B. No. 316
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                                        AN ACT
    1-1  relating to the statutory county courts in Cameron County.
    1-2        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-3        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 25.0331, Government Code,
    1-4  is amended to read as follows:
    1-5        (a)  Cameron County has the following statutory county
    1-6  courts:
    1-7              (1)  County Court at Law No. 1 of Cameron County; <and>
    1-8              (2)  County Court at Law No. 2 of Cameron County; and
    1-9              (3)  County Court at Law No. 3 of Cameron County.
   1-10        SECTION 2.  Subsection (a), Section 25.0332, Government Code,
   1-11  is amended 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 Cameron County
   1-14  has<:>
   1-15              <(1)  concurrent with the county court, the probate
   1-16  jurisdiction provided by general law for county courts; and>
   1-17              <(2)>  concurrent jurisdiction with the district court
   1-18  in:
   1-19              (1)  family law cases and proceedings; and
   1-20              (2)  juvenile matters <civil cases in which the amount
   1-21  in controversy exceeds $500 but does not exceed $100,000, excluding
   1-22  interest>.
   1-23        SECTION 3.  Section 25.0332, Government Code, is amended by
   1-24  adding Subsection (b) to read as follows:
    2-1        (b)  The district court may transfer to a county court at law
    2-2  any family law case or proceeding, any juvenile matter, or any
    2-3  civil action over which the county court at law has jurisdiction.
    2-4        SECTION 4.  Subsection (j), Section 25.0332, Government Code,
    2-5  is amended to read as follows:
    2-6        (j)  The district clerk serves as clerk of a county court at
    2-7  law for family law cases and proceedings and juvenile matters, and
    2-8  the county clerk serves as clerk for all other cases.  The county
    2-9  clerk may appoint a deputy to attend the county courts at law.
   2-10        SECTION 5.  Subsection (k), Section 25.0332, Government Code,
   2-11  is amended to read as follows:
   2-12        (k)  The county sheriff shall, either in person or by deputy,
   2-13  attend the County Court at Law No. 1 of Cameron County as required
   2-14  by the judge.  The county sheriff serves the other county courts at
   2-15  law <County Court at Law No. 2 of Cameron County> as provided by
   2-16  Section 25.0010(b).
   2-17        SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   2-18        SECTION 7.  The importance of this legislation and the
   2-19  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   2-20  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-21  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-22  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.