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.