By Hartnett H.B. No. 412 75R2370 MLS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the statutory county courts in Dallas County. 1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-4 SECTION 1. Section 25.0592, Government Code, is amended by 1-5 adding Subsections (a), (c), and (d) to read as follows: 1-6 (a) In addition to the jurisdiction provided by Section 1-7 25.0003 and other law, a county court at law in Dallas County has 1-8 concurrent jurisdiction with the district court in civil cases 1-9 regardless of the amount in controversy. 1-10 (c) If a civil cause or proceeding that could have been 1-11 filed in a civil district court of Dallas County is filed in a 1-12 county court at law in Dallas County and the county court at law 1-13 does not have subject matter jurisdiction over the cause or 1-14 proceeding, the filing, docketing, or assignment of the cause or 1-15 proceeding in or to a county court at law is considered a clerical 1-16 error, and that clerical error shall be corrected by a judgment or 1-17 order nunc pro tunc. The cause or proceeding is considered filed, 1-18 docketed, or assigned to the district court of the local 1-19 administrative judge in the first instance rather than to a county 1-20 court at law in Dallas County. The judge of a county court at law 1-21 in Dallas County who acts in the cause or proceeding is considered 1-22 assigned to the district court of the local administrative judge 1-23 for that purpose and has all the powers of the judge of that 1-24 district court under the assignment. 2-1 (d) Notwithstanding Section 31.004, Civil Practice and 2-2 Remedies Code, a judgment or determination of fact or law in a 2-3 proceeding in a county court at law in Dallas County is res 2-4 judicata and constitutes a basis for collateral estoppel in a 2-5 proceeding in any other court, except for appeals from other 2-6 tribunals. 2-7 SECTION 2. The importance of this legislation and the 2-8 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-9 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-10 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-11 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-12 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-13 passage, and it is so enacted.