1-1     By:  Zbranek (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth)             H.B. No. 2702

 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 27, 1997;

 1-3     April 29, 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 payment of certain probate fees.

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

1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 118.055(d), Local Government Code, is

1-11     amended to read as follows:

1-12           (d)  Except as otherwise provided, the fees listed in this

1-13     section are total fees.  The fee for probate of a will with

1-14     independent executor, administration with a will attached,

1-15     administration of an estate, guardianship or receivership of an

1-16     estate, or muniment of title is for services rendered from the

1-17     initiating of the action until either an order approving the

1-18     inventory and appraisement is filed or the 120th [90th] day after

1-19     the date on which the action is filed, whichever occurs first.

1-20           SECTION 2.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-21     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-22     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-23     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-24     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,

1-25     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its

1-26     passage, and it is so enacted.

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