By Counts                                             H.B. No. 3825
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                                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.