By Counts H.B. No. 3825
76R9536 JMC-D
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the jurisdiction of the County Court of King County.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 24.152(b), Government Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (b) In addition to other jurisdiction provided by law
1-7 [Except for the jurisdiction each county court retains to receive
1-8 and enter guilty pleas in misdemeanor cases], the district court in
1-9 Baylor, Cottle, King, and Knox counties has[, in addition to other
1-10 jurisdiction provided by law,] the civil [and criminal]
1-11 jurisdiction of a county court.
1-12 SECTION 2. Section 26.235, Government Code, is amended to
1-13 read as follows:
1-14 Sec. 26.235. KING COUNTY. The County Court of King County
1-15 has the general jurisdiction of a probate court and the general
1-16 criminal jurisdiction of a county court but has no other civil [or
1-17 criminal] jurisdiction [except to receive and enter guilty pleas in
1-18 misdemeanor cases].
1-19 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-20 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
1-21 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-22 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-23 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-24 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.