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By Puente H.B. No. 3260
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the redesignation of County Court at Law No. 1 and
1-3 Probate Court of Bexar County.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 25.0171, Government Code, is amended to
1-6 read as follows:
1-7 Sec. 25.0171. BEXAR COUNTY. (a) [Bexar County has one
1-8 county court at law and statutory probate court, the County Court
1-9 at Law No. 1 and Probate Court of Bexar County, Texas.]
1-10 [(b)] Bexar County has the following county courts at law:
1-11 (1) County Court at Law No. 2 of Bexar County, Texas;
1-12 (2) County Court at Law No. 3 of Bexar County, Texas;
1-13 (3) County Court at Law No. 4 of Bexar County, Texas;
1-14 (4) County Court at Law No. 5 of Bexar County, Texas;
1-15 (5) County Court at Law No. 6 of Bexar County, Texas;
1-16 (6) County Court at Law No. 7 of Bexar County, Texas;
1-17 (7) County Court at Law No. 8 of Bexar County, Texas;
1-18 and
1-19 (8) County Court at Law No. 9 of Bexar County, Texas.
1-20 (b) [(c)] Bexar County also has the following statutory
1-21 probate courts:
1-22 (1) Probate Court No. 1 of Bexar County, Texas; [and]
1-23 (2) Probate Court No. 2 of Bexar County, Texas; and
1-24 (3) Probate Court No. 3 of Bexar County, Texas.
2-1 SECTION 2. Sections 25.0173(b), (n), and (o), Government
2-2 Code, are amended to read as follows:
2-3 (b) Probate Court No. 2 and [the County Court at Law No. 1
2-4 and] Probate Court No. 3 have jurisdiction over all causes and
2-5 proceedings, civil and criminal, original and appellate, prescribed
2-6 by law for the County Courts at Law Nos. 2 and 3 of Bexar County.
2-7 Probate Court No. 2 shall give preference to probate matters and
2-8 proceedings.
2-9 (n) The [County Court at Law No. 1 and] Probate Court No. 3
2-10 of Bexar County has primary responsibility for mental illness
2-11 proceedings.
2-12 (o) Notwithstanding the local rules adopted under Section
2-13 74.093, the county clerk shall docket all mental health matters in
2-14 the [County Court at Law No. 1 and] Probate Court No. 3 of Bexar
2-15 County, and shall docket all even-numbered probate cases in Probate
2-16 Court No. 2 and all odd-numbered probate cases in Probate Court No.
2-17 1.
2-18 SECTION 3. Section 25.0172(w), Government Code, is repealed.
2-19 SECTION 4. The redesignation of County Court at Law No. 1
2-20 and Probate Court of Bexar County, Texas, as the Probate Court No.
2-21 3 of Bexar County, Texas, does not affect the office of judge of
2-22 that court, and the judge, unless otherwise removed, continues to
2-23 serve for the term to which elected.
2-24 SECTION 5. This Act takes effect September 1, 1998.
2-25 SECTION 6. The importance of this legislation and the
2-26 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-27 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-28 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-29 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.