By Luna                                                S.B. No. 165
         76R3059 DB-D                           
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the creation of the Bexar County Probate Court No. 3.
 1-3           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-4           SECTION 1.  Section 25.0171(c), Government Code, is amended
 1-5     to read as follows:
 1-6           (c)  Bexar County also has the following statutory probate
 1-7     courts:
 1-8                 (1)  Probate Court No. 1 of Bexar County, Texas; [and]
 1-9                 (2)  Probate Court No. 2 of Bexar County, Texas; and
1-10                 (3)  Probate Court No. 3 of Bexar County, Texas.
1-11           SECTION 2.  Sections 25.0173(a), (b), (j), and (o),
1-12     Government Code, are amended to read as follows:
1-13           (a)  A statutory probate court in Bexar County has the
1-14     general jurisdiction of a probate court as provided by Section
1-15     25.0021.  Probate Courts Nos. 1, [and] 2, and 3 have eminent domain
1-16     jurisdiction and jurisdiction to decide the issue of title to real
1-17     or personal property.  Notwithstanding the local rules adopted
1-18     under Section 74.093, the county clerk shall docket all eminent
1-19     domain cases equally among [in] Probate Courts Nos. [Court No.] 1,
1-20     [and Probate Court No.] 2, and 3.
1-21           (b)  Probate Courts Nos. [Court No.] 2 and 3 and the County
1-22     Court at Law No. 1 and Probate Court have jurisdiction over all
1-23     causes and proceedings, civil and criminal, original and appellate,
1-24     prescribed by law for the County Courts at Law Nos. 2 and 3 of
 2-1     Bexar County.  Probate Courts Nos. [Court No.] 2 and 3 shall give
 2-2     preference to probate matters and proceedings.
 2-3           (j)  Appeals may be taken from interlocutory orders
 2-4     appointing a receiver and overruling a motion to vacate an order
 2-5     appointing a receiver in Probate Courts Nos.  [Court No.] 2 and 3.
 2-6     The procedure and manner in which appeals from interlocutory orders
 2-7     are taken are governed by the laws relating to appeals from similar
 2-8     orders of district courts.
 2-9           (o)  Notwithstanding the local rules adopted under Section
2-10     74.093, the county clerk shall docket all mental health matters in
2-11     the County Court at Law No. 1 and Probate Court of Bexar County,
2-12     and shall docket [all even-numbered] probate cases equally among
2-13     [in] Probate Courts Nos. 1, [Court No.] 2, and 3 [all odd-numbered
2-14     probate cases in Probate Court No. 1].
2-15           SECTION 3.  The Probate Court No. 3 of Bexar County, Texas,
2-16     is created and this Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
2-17           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-18     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-19     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-20     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-21     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.