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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