1-1     By:  Wentworth                                        S.B. No. 1163
 1-2           (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 1999; March 11, 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 jurisdiction of statutory probate courts.
 1-9           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-10           SECTION 1.  Section 25.0021, Government Code, is amended to
1-11     read as follows:
1-12           Sec. 25.0021.  JURISDICTION.  (a)  If a provision of this
1-13     subchapter conflicts with a specific provision for a particular
1-14     court or county, the specific provision controls except that this
1-15     subchapter controls over a specific provision for a particular
1-16     court or county if the specific provision attempts to create
1-17     jurisdiction in a statutory probate court other than jurisdiction
1-18     over probate, guardianship, mental health, or eminent domain
1-19     proceedings.
1-20           (b)  A statutory probate court as that term is defined in
1-21     Section 3(ii), Texas Probate Code, has the general jurisdiction of
1-22     a probate court as provided by the Texas Probate Code.
1-23           SECTION 2.  Section 25.00266, Government Code, and Section
1-24     25.0032, Government Code, as added by Chapter 394, Acts of the 72nd
1-25     Legislature, Regular Session, 1991, are repealed.
1-26           SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 1999.
1-27           SECTION 4.  This Act applies only to the jurisdiction of
1-28     cases filed on or after the effective date of this Act.  The
1-29     jurisdiction of a case filed before the effective date of this Act
1-30     is governed by the law as it existed immediately before the
1-31     effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for
1-32     that purpose.
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