1-1  By:  Lucio                                             S.B. No. 316
    1-2        (In the Senate - Filed January 24, 1995; January 25, 1995,
    1-3  read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
    1-4  February 7, 1995, reported adversely, with favorable Committee
    1-5  Substitute by the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 2;
    1-6  February 7, 1995, sent to printer.)
    1-7  COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR S.B. No. 316                     By:  Cain
    1-8                         A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-9                                AN ACT
   1-10  relating to the statutory county courts in Cameron County.
   1-11        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
   1-12        SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 25.0331, Government Code,
   1-13  is amended to read as follows:
   1-14        (a)  Cameron County has the following statutory county
   1-15  courts:
   1-16              (1)  County Court at Law No. 1 of Cameron County; <and>
   1-17              (2)  County Court at Law No. 2 of Cameron County; and
   1-18              (3)  County Court at Law No. 3 of Cameron County.
   1-19        SECTION 2.  Subsection (a), Section 25.0332, Government Code,
   1-20  is amended to read as follows:
   1-21        (a)  In addition to the jurisdiction provided by Section
   1-22  25.0003 and other law, a county court at law in Cameron County
   1-23  has<:>
   1-24              <(1)  concurrent with the county court, the probate
   1-25  jurisdiction provided by general law for county courts; and>
   1-26              <(2)>  concurrent jurisdiction with the district court
   1-27  in:
   1-28              (1)  family law cases and proceedings; and
   1-29              (2)  juvenile matters <civil cases in which the amount
   1-30  in controversy exceeds $500 but does not exceed $100,000, excluding
   1-31  interest>.
   1-32        SECTION 3.  Section 25.0332, Government Code, is amended by
   1-33  adding Subsection (b) to read as follows:
   1-34        (b)  The district court may transfer to a county court at law
   1-35  any family law case or proceeding, any juvenile matter, or any
   1-36  civil action over which the county court at law has jurisdiction.
   1-37        SECTION 4.  Subsection (j), Section 25.0332, Government Code,
   1-38  is amended to read as follows:
   1-39        (j)  The district clerk serves as clerk of a county court at
   1-40  law for family law cases and proceedings and juvenile matters, and
   1-41  the county clerk serves as clerk for all other cases.  The county
   1-42  clerk may appoint a deputy to attend the county courts at law.
   1-43        SECTION 5.  Subsection (k), Section 25.0332, Government Code,
   1-44  is amended to read as follows:
   1-45        (k)  The county sheriff shall, either in person or by deputy,
   1-46  attend the County Court at Law No. 1 of Cameron County as required
   1-47  by the judge.  The county sheriff serves the other county courts at
   1-48  law <County Court at Law No. 2 of Cameron County> as provided by
   1-49  Section 25.0010(b).
   1-50        SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
   1-51        SECTION 7.  The importance of this legislation and the
   1-52  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
   1-53  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   1-54  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   1-55  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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