1-1 By: Kamel, Glaze (Senate Sponsor - Cain) H.B. No. 3504 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 14, 1997; 1-3 April 16, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on 1-4 Jurisprudence; April 29, 1997, reported favorably by the following 1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; April 29, 1997, sent to printer.) 1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-7 AN ACT 1-8 relating to the jurisdiction of the county courts at law in Smith 1-9 County. 1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-11 SECTION 1. Section 25.2142(a-1), Government Code, is amended 1-12 to read as follows: 1-13 (a-1) A county court at law does not have jurisdiction of: 1-14 (1) capital felony cases or felonies of the first or 1-15 second degree; 1-16 (2) suits on behalf of the state to recover penalties, 1-17 forfeiture, or escheat; 1-18 (3) misdemeanors involving official misconduct; or 1-19 (4) contested elections. 1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997. 1-21 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 1-22 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 1-23 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 1-24 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 1-25 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended. 1-26 * * * * *