1-1 By: Merritt (Senate Sponsor - Ratliff) H.B. No. 3412
1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 19, 1999;
1-3 April 20, 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 Gregg
1-10 County.
1-11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-12 SECTION 1. Section 25.0942(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 of law in Gregg County has,
1-16 except as limited by Subsection (b), concurrent [jurisdiction] with
1-17 the district court, the jurisdiction provided by the constitution
1-18 and general law for district courts [in family law cases and
1-19 proceedings].
1-20 SECTION 2. Section 25.0942, Government Code, is amended by
1-21 adding Subsection (b) to read as follows:
1-22 (b) A county court at law does not have jurisdiction of
1-23 felony cases involving capital murder.
1-24 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
1-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-28 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
1-29 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
1-30 passage, and it is so enacted.
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