By Hartnett H.B. No. 2580 76R6358 KLA-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to the transfer of certain proceedings to a statutory 1-3 probate court. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 5B, Texas Probate Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 Sec. 5B. TRANSFER OF PROCEEDING. A judge of a statutory 1-8 probate court, on the motion of a party to the action or on the 1-9 motion of a person interested in an estate, may transfer to his 1-10 court from a district, county, or statutory court a cause of action 1-11 appertaining to or incident to an estate pending in the statutory 1-12 probate court or a cause of action in which a personal 1-13 representative of an estate pending in the statutory probate court 1-14 is a party and may consolidate the transferred cause of action with 1-15 the other proceedings in the statutory probate court relating to 1-16 that estate. 1-17 SECTION 2. Section 608, Texas Probate Code, is amended to 1-18 read as follows: 1-19 Sec. 608. TRANSFER OF GUARDIANSHIP PROCEEDING. A judge of a 1-20 statutory probate court, on the motion of a party to the action or 1-21 of a person interested in a guardianship, may transfer to the 1-22 judge's court from a district, county, or statutory court a cause 1-23 of action appertaining to or incident to a guardianship estate that 1-24 is pending in the statutory probate court or a cause of action in 2-1 which a personal representative of an estate pending in the 2-2 statutory probate court is a party and may consolidate the 2-3 transferred cause of action with the other proceedings in the 2-4 statutory probate court relating to the guardianship estate. 2-5 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and 2-6 applies only to a motion to transfer a cause of action filed on or 2-7 after that date. A motion to transfer a cause of action filed 2-8 before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in 2-9 effect on the date the motion was filed, and the former law is 2-10 continued in effect for that purpose. 2-11 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-12 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-13 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-14 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-15 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.