1-1     By:  Counts (Senate Sponsor - Haywood)                H.B. No. 3825
 1-2           (In the Senate - Received from the House May 11, 1999;
 1-3     May 12, 1999, read first time and referred to Committee on
 1-4     Intergovernmental Relations; May 14, 1999, reported favorably by
 1-5     the following vote:  Yeas 4, Nays 0; May 14, 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 of King County.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Section 24.152(b), Government Code, is amended to
1-12     read as follows:
1-13           (b)  In addition to other jurisdiction provided by law
1-14     [Except for the jurisdiction each county court retains to receive
1-15     and enter guilty pleas in misdemeanor cases], the district court in
1-16     Baylor, Cottle, King, and Knox counties has[, in addition to other
1-17     jurisdiction provided by law,] the civil [and criminal]
1-18     jurisdiction of a county court.
1-19           SECTION 2.  Section 26.235, Government Code, is amended to
1-20     read as follows:
1-21           Sec. 26.235.  KING COUNTY.  The County Court of King County
1-22     has the general jurisdiction of a probate court and the general
1-23     criminal jurisdiction of a county court but has no other civil [or
1-24     criminal] jurisdiction [except to receive and enter guilty pleas in
1-25     misdemeanor cases].
1-26           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-27           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-28     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-29     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-30     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
1-31     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.
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