By:  Smithee (Senate Sponsor - Bivins)                            H.B. No. 3577
	(In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 2003; 
May 13, 2003, read first time and referred to Committee on 
Jurisprudence; May 22, 2003, reported favorably, as amended, by 
the following vote:  Yeas 5, Nays 0; May 22, 2003, sent to printer.)


COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO. 1                                                By:  Gallegos


Amend HB 3577 on page 1, line 37 by adding the words "to conduct 
arraignments, conduct pretrial hearings, and accept guilty pleas" 
between "cases" and ".".

On page 1, lines 42 through 44 by removing the words "The county may 
not reduce the compensation paid to the judge of a county court at 
law during the judge's term in office."

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the County Court at Law of Randall County. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 25.1931, Government Code, is amended to read as follows: Sec. 25.1931. RANDALL COUNTY. (a) Randall County has one statutory county court, the County Court at Law No. 1 of Randall County. (b) A county court at law of Randall County sits in the county seat or at another location in the county as assigned by the local administrative statutory county court judge. SECTION 2. Section 25.1932, Government Code, is amended by amending Subsections (a) and (d) and adding Subsections (b) and (k) to read as follows: (a) In addition to the jurisdiction provided by Section 25.0003 and other law, a county court at law in Randall County has concurrent jurisdiction with the district court in: (1) family law cases and proceedings; (2) cases and proceedings involving justiciable controversies and differences between spouses, or between parents, or between parent and child, or between any of these and third persons; [and] (3) civil cases; and (4) felony cases. (b) A county court at law has terms beginning on the first Mondays of January and July of each year. (d) The salary paid the judge of a county court at law shall be paid out of the county treasury by the commissioners court, except as otherwise provided by law. The county may not reduce the compensation paid to the judge of a county court at law during the judge's term in office. (k) Notwithstanding Section 74.121(b)(1), in matters of concurrent jurisdiction, the judge of a county court at law and the judges of the district courts in the county may exchange benches and courtrooms and may transfer cases between their dockets in the same manner that judges of district courts exchange benches and transfer cases under Section 24.303. SECTION 3. On September 1, 2003, the County Court at Law of Randall County is redesignated as the County Court at Law No. 1 of Randall County. SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.
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