1-1 By: Counts (Senate Sponsor - Haywood) H.B. No. 3828
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 Knox 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 26.238, Government Code, is amended to
1-20 read as follows:
1-21 Sec. 26.238. KNOX COUNTY. The County Court of Knox 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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