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Amend Floor Amendment No. 1 to CSSB 22 by adding the 
following appropriately numbered ARTICLE and renumbering 
subsequent ARTICLES of the bill accordingly:

ARTICLE ____.  CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS
	SECTION __.01.  Subchapter A, Chapter 25, Government Code, 
is amended by adding Section 25.0020 to read as follows:
	Sec. 25.0020.  CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS IN CERTAIN 
COUNTIES.  (a)  This section applies only to a county with a 
population of three million or more.
	(b)  Notwithstanding Section 25.1032 or any other law, a 
county civil court at law has concurrent jurisdiction with the 
district court of eminent domain proceedings, both statutory and 
inverse, regardless of the amount in controversy.
	(c)  Notwithstanding Section 21.013, Property Code, a party 
initiating a condemnation proceeding may file a petition with any 
clerk authorized to accept the petition for the district court.
	(d)  A condemnation proceeding shall be assigned by rotation 
to a court with jurisdiction to hear the proceeding.
	(e)  Notwithstanding Section 62.301, for a condemnation 
proceeding before a county civil court at law, a party may elect in 
a timely filed jury demand to have the proceeding tried before a 
jury of 12 persons.