Amend HB 1607 as follows:
      SECTION 2.  Section 606(b), Texas Probate Code, is amended to
read as follows:
      (b)  In those counties in which there is no statutory probate
court, county court at law, or other statutory court exercising the
jurisdiction of a probate court, all applications, petitions and
motions regarding guardianships, mental health matters, and other
matters covered by this chapter shall be filed and heard in the
county court, except that in contested guardianship matters, the
judge of the county court may on the judge's own motion, or shall
on the motion of any party to the proceeding, according to the
motion, request as provided by Section 25.0022, Government Code,
the assignment of a statutory probate court judge to hear the
contested portion of the proceeding, or transfer the contested
portion of the proceeding to the district court, which may hear the
transferred contested matters as if originally filed in the
district court.  If the judge of the county court has not
transferred a contested guardianship matter to the district court
at the time a party files a motion for assignment of a statutory
probate court judge, the county judge shall grant the motion and
may not transfer the matter to district court unless the party
withdraws the motion.  A statutory probate court judge assigned to
a contested probate matter as provided by this subsection has for
that matter the jurisdiction and authority granted to a statutory
probate court by Sections 607 and 608 of this code.  The county
court continues to exercise jurisdiction over the management of the
guardianship with the exception of the contested matter until final
disposition of the contested matter is made by the assigned judge
or the district court.  In contested matters transferred to the
district court as provided by this subsection, the district court,
concurrently with the county court, has the general jurisdiction of
a probate court.  On resolution of all pending contested matters,
the district court shall transfer the contested portion of the
guardianship proceeding to the county court for further proceedings
not inconsistent with the orders of the district court.  If a
contested portion of the proceeding is transferred to a district
court under this subsection, the clerk of the district court may
perform in relation to the transferred portion of the proceeding
any function a county clerk may perform in that type of contested
proceeding.