1-1     By:  Solis of Cameron (Senate Sponsor - Lucio)        H.B. No. 1350
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House March 29, 1999;
 1-3     March 30, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 13, 1999, reported favorably by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 13, 1999, sent to
 1-6     printer.)
 1-7                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-8                                   AN ACT
 1-9     relating to the jurisdiction of the statutory county courts of
1-10     Cameron County.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 25.0332(a), Government Code, is amended
1-13     to read as follows:
1-14           (a)  In addition to the jurisdiction provided by Section
1-15     25.0003 and other law, a county court at law in Cameron County has:
1-16                 (1)  concurrent with the county court, the probate
1-17     jurisdiction provided by general law for county courts; and
1-18                 (2)  concurrent jurisdiction with the district court in
1-19     civil cases in which the amount in controversy exceeds $500 but
1-20     does not exceed $1 million [$100,000], excluding interest.
1-21           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-22           SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-23     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-24     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-25     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-26     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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