1-1     By:  Truan                                            S.B. No. 1952

 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed May 9, 1997; May 9, 1997, read first

 1-3     time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental Relations;

 1-4     May 14, 1997, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 9,

 1-5     Nays 0; May 14, 1997, sent to printer.)

 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

 1-7                                   AN ACT

 1-8     relating to the jurisdiction of certain statutory county courts.

 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:

1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 5, Texas Probate Code, is amended by

1-11     adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:

1-12           (g)  Notwithstanding any other law, a statutory county court

1-13     created under Chapter 25, Government Code, that has the

1-14     jurisdiction of a statutory probate court on August 31, 1997,

1-15     retains that jurisdiction after that date.

1-16           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1997.

1-17           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the

1-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an

1-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the

1-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several

1-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.

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