By Shapiro                                             S.B. No. 179
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                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to the redesignation of County Court at Law No. 1 of
 1-3     Collin County as Probate Court of Collin County.
 1-4           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-5           SECTION 1.  Section 25.0451, Government Code, is amended to
 1-6     read as follows:
 1-7           Sec. 25.0451.  COLLIN COUNTY. (a)  Collin County has the
 1-8     following statutory county courts:
 1-9                 (1)  [County Court at Law No. 1 of Collin County;]
1-10                 [(2)]  County Court at Law No. 2 of Collin County;
1-11                 (2) [(3)]  County Court at Law No. 3 of Collin County;
1-12     and
1-13                 (3) [(4)]  County Court at Law No. 4 of Collin County.
1-14           (b)  Collin County has one statutory probate court, the
1-15     Probate Court of Collin County.
1-16           SECTION 2.  (a)  County Court at Law No. 1 of Collin County
1-17     is redesignated as the Probate Court of Collin County.
1-18           (b)  The judge of County Court at Law No. 1 of Collin County
1-19     is the judge of the Probate Court of Collin County.
1-20           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-21           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
1-22     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
1-23     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
1-24     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
 2-1     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.