By Zbranek                                            H.B. No. 2702

         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 2702:

         By Zbranek                                        C.S.H.B. No. 2702

                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 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 appraisements filed or the 120th [90th] day after the

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