By: Paxton  S.B. No. 1328
         (In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2013; March 13, 2013, read
  first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence;
  March 27, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote:  Yeas 5,
  Nays 0; March 27, 2013, sent to printer.)
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
 
  relating to the authority of a statutory probate court in Collin
  County to hear and determine certain matters pending in a district
  or statutory county court.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 25.0453, Government Code, is amended by
  adding Subsection (g) to read as follows:
         (g)  Notwithstanding Section 74.094, a statutory probate
  court judge may hear and determine a matter pending in any district
  or statutory county court in Collin County regardless of whether
  the matter is preliminary or final or whether there is a judgment in
  the matter. The judge may sign a judgment or order in any of the
  courts regardless of whether the case is transferred. The
  judgment, order, or action is valid and binding as if the case were
  pending in the court of the judge who acts in the matter. The
  authority of this subsection applies to an active judge or a former
  or retired judge assigned to a statutory probate court.
         SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2013.
 
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