1-1     By:  Staples (Senate Sponsor - Nixon)                  H.B. No. 732

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 4, 1997;

 1-3     April 8, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on

 1-4     Jurisprudence; May 13, 1997, reported favorably by the following

 1-5     vote:  Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 13, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the jurisdiction of the Anderson County Court at Law.

 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 25.0032(a), Government Code, as added by

1-11     Chapter 148, Acts of the 70th Legislature, Regular Session, 1987,

1-12     is amended 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 Anderson County

1-15     has:

1-16                 (1)  concurrent jurisdiction with the district court

1-17     in:

1-18                       (A)  probate matters and proceedings, including

1-19     will contests; [and]

1-20                       (B)  family law cases and proceedings;

1-21                       (C)  criminal cases; and

1-22                       (D)  actions and proceedings under Subtitle B,

1-23     Title 9, Property Code; and

1-24                 (2)  concurrent jurisdiction with the county and

1-25     district courts over all suits arising under the Family Code.

1-26           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-27     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-28     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-29     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-30     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-31     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-32     passage, and it is so enacted.

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