By Hilderbran H.B. No. 2136 76R4165 DB-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the creation of the County Court at Law of Kendall 1-3 County. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 25, Government Code, is 1-6 amended by adding Sections 25.1321 and 25.1322 to read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 25.1321. KENDALL COUNTY. Kendall County has one 1-8 statutory county court, the County Court at Law of Kendall County. 1-9 Sec. 25.1322. KENDALL COUNTY COURT AT LAW PROVISIONS. (a) 1-10 In addition to the jurisdiction provided by Section 25.0003 and 1-11 other law, a county court at law of Kendall County has concurrent 1-12 jurisdiction with the district court in: 1-13 (1) criminal cases other than felony cases; and 1-14 (2) family law cases and proceedings. 1-15 (b) The commissioners court by order entered of record shall 1-16 set at least two terms of court each year for each county court at 1-17 law. 1-18 (c) A judge of a county court at law may not engage in the 1-19 private practice of law. 1-20 (d) The salary of a judge of a county court at law shall be 1-21 set by the commissioners court and shall be paid out of the county 1-22 treasury on orders from the commissioners court. 1-23 (e) A special judge of a county court at law may be 1-24 appointed in the manner provided by law for the appointment of a 2-1 special county judge. A special judge must have the same 2-2 qualifications and is entitled to the same rate of compensation as 2-3 the regular judge. 2-4 (f) The district clerk serves as the clerk of a county court 2-5 at law in matters in which the county court at law has concurrent 2-6 jurisdiction with the district court. The county clerk serves as 2-7 the clerk of a county court at law in all other matters. 2-8 SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 25.1321, Government 2-9 Code, as added by this Act, the County Court at Law of Kendall 2-10 County is created January 1, 2001, or on an earlier date determined 2-11 by the commissioners court by an order entered in its minutes. 2-12 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-13 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-14 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-15 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-16 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.