78R723 KLA-D

By:  Cook of Navarro                                              H.B. No. 196



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the abolition of the County Court at Law of Navarro 
County.     
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Sections 25.1771 and 25.1772, Government Code, 
are repealed.     
	SECTION 2.  Section 2, Chapter 772, Acts of the 77th 
Legislature, Regular Session, 2001, is repealed.
	SECTION 3.  (a)  If created before the effective date of 
this Act, the County Court at Law of Navarro County is abolished on 
the effective date of this Act and the judge of that court shall 
transfer each case that is pending in the court on that date to a 
district court or county court in the county with jurisdiction over 
the case.
	(b)  When a case is transferred as provided by Subsection (a)  
of this section, all processes, writs, bonds, recognizances, or 
other obligations issued from the transferring court are returnable 
to the court to which the case is transferred as if originally 
issued by that court.  The obligees on all bonds and recognizances 
taken in and for a court from which a case is transferred, and all 
witnesses summoned to appear in a court from which a case is 
transferred, are required to appear before the court to which a case 
is transferred as if originally required to appear before that 
court.
	SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2003.