1-1                                   AN ACT

 1-2     relating to the payment of certain probate fees.

 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 118.055(d), Local Government Code, is

 1-5     amended to read as follows:

 1-6           (d)  Except as otherwise provided, the fees listed in this

 1-7     section are total fees.  The fee for probate of a will with

 1-8     independent executor, administration with a will attached,

 1-9     administration of an estate, guardianship or receivership of an

1-10     estate, or muniment of title is for services rendered from the

1-11     initiating of the action until either an order approving the

1-12     inventory and appraisement is filed or the 120th [90th] day after

1-13     the date on which the action is filed, whichever occurs first.

1-14           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-15     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-16     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-17     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-18     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-19     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-20     passage, and it is so enacted.

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             President of the Senate              Speaker of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2702 was passed by the House on April

         25, 1997, by a non-record vote.

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                                                 Chief Clerk of the House

               I certify that H.B. No. 2702 was passed by the Senate on May

         19, 1997, by the following vote:  Yeas 31, Nays 0.

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                                                 Secretary of the Senate

         APPROVED:  _____________________

                            Date

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                          Governor