1-1 By: Luna, Berlanga, Seaman (Senate Sponsor - Truan) H.B. No. 3565
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 1997;
1-3 May 6, 1997, read first time and referred to Committee on
1-4 Jurisprudence; May 15, 1997, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 15, 1997, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the duties of the district clerk of Nueces County.
1-9 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10 SECTION 1. Section 25.1802(n), Government Code, is amended
1-11 to read as follows:
1-12 (n) The district clerk serves as clerk of a county court at
1-13 law in cases enumerated in Subsection (a) [in the concurrent
1-14 jurisdiction of the county courts at law and the district courts,
1-15 and the county clerk serves as the clerk in all other cases]. The
1-16 district clerk shall establish a separate docket for each county
1-17 court at law. In matters of concurrent jurisdiction with the
1-18 district court, the district clerk shall [and] charge the same
1-19 fees as are allowed in district court cases, except that in cases
1-20 enumerated in Subsections (a)(2), (a)(3), and (a)(5), and in
1-21 misdemeanor cases other than those involving official misconduct,
1-22 the clerk may not charge higher fees than the fees charged by
1-23 county clerks for similar cases.
1-24 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
1-25 applies only to cases filed in a county court at law on or after
1-26 the effective date of this Act. A case filed before the effective
1-27 date of this Act is governed by the law in effect immediately
1-28 before this Act, and that law is continued in effect for that
1-29 purpose.
1-30 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-31 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-32 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-33 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-34 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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