1-1     By:  Hartnett (Senate Sponsor - Wentworth)            H.B. No. 2580
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House April 26, 1999;
 1-3     April 27, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Jurisprudence; May 11, 1999, reported favorably by the following
 1-5     vote:  Yeas 3, Nays 0; May 11, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the transfer of certain proceedings to a statutory
 1-9     probate court.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 5B, Texas Probate Code, is amended to
1-12     read as follows:
1-13           Sec. 5B.  TRANSFER OF PROCEEDING.  A judge of a statutory
1-14     probate court, on the motion of a party to the action or on the
1-15     motion of a person interested in an estate, may transfer to his
1-16     court from a district, county, or statutory court a cause of action
1-17     appertaining to or incident to an estate pending in the statutory
1-18     probate court or a cause of action in which a personal
1-19     representative of an estate pending in the statutory probate court
1-20     is a party and may consolidate the transferred cause of action with
1-21     the other proceedings in the statutory probate court relating to
1-22     that estate.
1-23           SECTION 2.  Section 608, Texas Probate Code, is amended to
1-24     read as follows:
1-25           Sec. 608.  TRANSFER OF GUARDIANSHIP PROCEEDING.  A judge of a
1-26     statutory probate court, on the motion of a party to the action or
1-27     of a person interested in a guardianship, may transfer to the
1-28     judge's court from a district, county, or statutory court a cause
1-29     of action appertaining to or incident to a guardianship estate that
1-30     is pending in the statutory probate court or a cause of action in
1-31     which a  personal representative of an estate pending in the
1-32     statutory probate court is a party and may consolidate the
1-33     transferred cause of action with the other proceedings in the
1-34     statutory probate court relating to the guardianship estate.
1-35           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999, and
1-36     applies only to a motion to transfer a cause of action filed on or
1-37     after that date.  A motion to transfer a cause of action filed
1-38     before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in
1-39     effect on the date the motion was filed, and the former law is
1-40     continued in effect for that purpose.
1-41           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-42     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-43     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-44     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-45     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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