By Cain S.B. No. 1818
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the jurisdiction of the county courts at law in Smith
1-3 County.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 25.2142(a-1), Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (a-1) A county court at law's felony jurisdiction is limited
1-8 to jurisdiction in third degree felony cases and jurisdiction to
1-9 conduct arraignments, conduct pretrial hearings, accept guilty
1-10 pleas, and conduct probation revocation hearings in felony cases.
1-11 A county court at law does not have jurisdiction of:
1-12 (1) [felony cases;]
1-13 [(2)] suits on behalf of the state to recover
1-14 penalties, forfeiture, or escheat;
1-15 (2) [(3)] misdemeanors involving official misconduct;
1-16 or
1-17 (3) [(4)] contested elections.
1-18 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.
1-19 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-20 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-21 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-22 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-23 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.