1-1     By:  Wentworth                                        S.B. No. 1007
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 8, 1999; March 10, 1999, read
 1-3     first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
 1-4     April 8, 1999, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 4,
 1-5     Nays 0; April 8, 1999, sent to printer.)
 1-6                            A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-7                                   AN ACT
 1-8     relating to the staffing of certain courts with statutory probate
 1-9     court jurisdiction.
1-10           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-11           SECTION 1.  Subsection (a), Section 25.0024, Government Code,
1-12     is amended to read as follows:
1-13           (a)  A judge of a statutory probate court shall [in a county
1-14     with a population of one million or more may] hire with the
1-15     approval of the commissioners court through the county budget
1-16     process a court coordinator, an administrative assistant, and an
1-17     auditor for the court.
1-18           SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
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