By Luna, Berlanga, Seaman H.B. No. 3565
75R8556 MLS-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the duties of the district clerk of Nueces County.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 25.1802(n), Government Code, is amended
1-5 to read as follows:
1-6 (n) The district clerk serves as clerk of a county court at
1-7 law in cases enumerated in Subsection (a) [in the concurrent
1-8 jurisdiction of the county courts at law and the district courts,
1-9 and the county clerk serves as the clerk in all other cases]. The
1-10 district clerk shall establish a separate docket for each county
1-11 court at law. In matters of concurrent jurisdiction with the
1-12 district court, the district clerk shall [and] charge the same
1-13 fees as are allowed in district court cases, except that in cases
1-14 enumerated in Subsections (a)(2), (a)(3), and (a)(5), and in
1-15 misdemeanor cases other than those involving official misconduct,
1-16 the clerk may not charge higher fees than the fees charged by
1-17 county clerks for similar cases.
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-19 applies only to cases filed in a county court at law on or after
1-20 the effective date of this Act. A case filed before the effective
1-21 date of this Act is governed by the law in effect immediately
1-22 before this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that
1-23 purpose.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-1 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-2 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-3 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-4 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.