1-1 By: Shapiro, Haywood S.B. No. 179
1-2 (In the Senate - Filed January 19, 1999; January 28, 1999,
1-3 read first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
1-4 Relations; February 18, 1999, reported favorably by the following
1-5 vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; February 18, 1999, sent to printer.)
1-6 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-7 AN ACT
1-8 relating to the redesignation of County Court at Law No. 1 of
1-9 Collin County as Probate Court of Collin County.
1-10 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11 SECTION 1. Section 25.0451, Government Code, is amended to
1-12 read as follows:
1-13 Sec. 25.0451. COLLIN COUNTY. (a) Collin County has the
1-14 following statutory county courts:
1-15 (1) [County Court at Law No. 1 of Collin County;]
1-16 [(2)] County Court at Law No. 2 of Collin County;
1-17 (2) [(3)] County Court at Law No. 3 of Collin County;
1-18 and
1-19 (3) [(4)] County Court at Law No. 4 of Collin County.
1-20 (b) Collin County has one statutory probate court, the
1-21 Probate Court of Collin County.
1-22 SECTION 2. (a) County Court at Law No. 1 of Collin County
1-23 is redesignated as the Probate Court of Collin County.
1-24 (b) The judge of County Court at Law No. 1 of Collin County
1-25 is the judge of the Probate Court of Collin County.
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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