1-1 By: Shapiro S.B. No. 320
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 25, 1995; January 26, 1995,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
1-4 February 7, 1995, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas
1-5 4, Nays 2; February 7, 1995, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the county courts at law of Collin County.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 25.0451, Government Code, is amended to
1-11 read as follows:
1-12 Sec. 25.0451. Collin County. Collin County has the
1-13 following statutory county courts:
1-14 (1) County Court at Law No. 1 of Collin County;
1-15 (2) County Court at Law No. 2 of Collin County; <and>
1-16 (3) County Court at Law No. 3 of Collin County; and
1-17 (4) County Court at Law No. 4 of Collin County.
1-18 SECTION 2. Section 25.0452, Government Code, is amended by
1-19 adding Subsection (a) to read as follows:
1-20 (a) In addition to the jurisdiction provided by Section
1-21 25.0003 and other law, a county court at law in Collin County has
1-22 the probate jurisdiction provided by Section 25.0021 for statutory
1-23 probate courts.
1-24 SECTION 3. Notwithstanding Subdivision (4), Section 25.0451,
1-25 Government Code, as added by this Act, the County Court at Law No.
1-26 4 of Collin County is created October 1, 1995, or on an earlier
1-27 date determined by the commissioners court by an order entered in
1-28 its minutes.
1-29 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 1995.
1-30 SECTION 5. The importance of this legislation and the
1-31 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-32 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-33 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-34 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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