By Thompson H.B. No. 2533
76R5609 RJA-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the assignment and docketing of cases filed in Harris
1-3 County statutory probate courts.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 25.1034(j), Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (j) The county clerk shall keep a separate docket for each
1-8 court. The county clerk shall assign and docket at random [file]
1-9 matters and proceedings filed in the statutory probate courts
1-10 according to the following percentages: [in the manner provided by
1-11 this subsection. Cases ending in 3 or 4 shall be filed in the]
1-12 Probate Court No. 1 [4] of Harris County, 30 percent;[. Cases
1-13 ending in 0 or 5 shall be filed in the] Probate Court No. 2 [3] of
1-14 Harris County, 30 percent;[. All other cases ending in an odd
1-15 number shall be filed in the] Probate Court No. 3 [1] of Harris
1-16 County, 20 percent; and[. All other cases ending in an even number
1-17 shall be filed in the] Probate Court No. 4 [2] of Harris County,
1-18 20 percent. [The clerk shall file the cases in the courts in the
1-19 order in which the cases were deposited with the clerk for filing.]
1-20 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-21 applies only to assignment of cases filed in the statutory probate
1-22 courts of Harris County on or after that date. Cases filed in
1-23 those courts before the effective date of this Act are governed by
1-24 the law as it existed immediately before the effective date of this
2-1 Act, and that law is continued in effect for that purpose.
2-2 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-3 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-4 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-5 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-6 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.