By: Shapiro S.B. No. 320
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
1-1 relating to the county courts at law of Collin County.
1-2 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-3 SECTION 1. Section 25.0451, Government Code, is amended to
1-4 read as follows:
1-5 Sec. 25.0451. Collin County. Collin County has the
1-6 following statutory county courts:
1-7 (1) County Court at Law No. 1 of Collin County;
1-8 (2) County Court at Law No. 2 of Collin County; <and>
1-9 (3) County Court at Law No. 3 of Collin County; and
1-10 (4) County Court at Law No. 4 of Collin County.
1-11 SECTION 2. Section 25.0452, Government Code, is amended by
1-12 adding Subsection (a) to read as follows:
1-13 (a) In addition to the jurisdiction provided by Section
1-14 25.0003 and other law, a county court at law in Collin County has
1-15 the probate jurisdiction provided by Section 25.0021 for statutory
1-16 probate courts.
1-17 SECTION 3. Notwithstanding Subdivision (4), Section 25.0451,
1-18 Government Code, as added by this Act, the County Court at Law No.
1-19 4 of Collin County is created October 1, 1995, or on an earlier
1-20 date determined by the commissioners court by an order entered in
1-21 its minutes.
1-22 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-23 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
1-24 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-1 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-2 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-3 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.