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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