By Merritt H.B. No. 3412
76R6630 RJA-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the jurisdiction of the County Court at Law of Gregg
1-3 County.
1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-5 SECTION 1. Section 25.0942(a), Government Code, is amended
1-6 to read as follows:
1-7 (a) In addition to the jurisdiction provided by Section
1-8 25.0003 and other law, a county court of law in Gregg County has,
1-9 except as limited by Subsection (b), concurrent [jurisdiction] with
1-10 the district court, the jurisdiction provided by the constitution
1-11 and general law for district courts [in family law cases and
1-12 proceedings].
1-13 SECTION 2. Section 25.0942, Government Code, is amended by
1-14 adding Subsection (b) to read as follows:
1-15 (b) A county court at law does not have jurisdiction of
1-16 felony cases involving capital murder.
1-17 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-22 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-23 passage, and it is so enacted.