1-1     By:  King of Parker (Senate Sponsor - Sibley)         H.B. No. 3176
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 10, 1999;
 1-3     May 10, 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 County Court at Law of Parker
1-10     County.
1-11           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12           SECTION 1.  Section 25.1862(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 Parker County has
1-16     concurrent jurisdiction with the district court in:
1-17                 (1)  civil cases in which the matter in controversy
1-18     exceeds $500 but does not exceed $500,000, excluding interest,
1-19     statutory or punitive damages and penalties, and attorney's fees
1-20     and costs, as alleged on the face of the petition; and
1-21                 (2)  family law cases and proceedings.
1-22           SECTION 2.  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,
1-27     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-28     passage, and it is so enacted.
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