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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