By: Darby (Senate Sponsor - Seliger) H.B. No. 616 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 15, 2013; April 17, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; May 13, 2013, reported adversely, with favorable Committee Substitute by the following vote: Yeas 6, Nays 0; May 13, 2013, sent to printer.) COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR H.B. No. 616 By: Hancock A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT relating to restoring the jurisdiction of the constitutional county court in Glasscock County. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: SECTION 1. Section 26.187, Government Code, is repealed. SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only to an action filed on or after the effective date of this Act. An action filed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the action was filed, and the former law is continued in effect for that purpose. SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. * * * * *