| 1 | 1 | | By: Paxton S.B. No. 1328 |
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| 2 | 2 | | (In the Senate - Filed March 7, 2013; March 13, 2013, read |
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| 3 | 3 | | first time and referred to Committee on Jurisprudence; |
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| 4 | 4 | | March 27, 2013, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, |
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| 5 | 5 | | Nays 0; March 27, 2013, sent to printer.) |
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| 7 | 7 | | |
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| 8 | 8 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 9 | 9 | | AN ACT |
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| 10 | 10 | | relating to the authority of a statutory probate court in Collin |
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| 11 | 11 | | County to hear and determine certain matters pending in a district |
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| 12 | 12 | | or statutory county court. |
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| 13 | 13 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 14 | 14 | | SECTION 1. Section 25.0453, Government Code, is amended by |
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| 15 | 15 | | adding Subsection (g) to read as follows: |
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| 16 | 16 | | (g) Notwithstanding Section 74.094, a statutory probate |
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| 17 | 17 | | court judge may hear and determine a matter pending in any district |
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| 18 | 18 | | or statutory county court in Collin County regardless of whether |
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| 19 | 19 | | the matter is preliminary or final or whether there is a judgment in |
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| 20 | 20 | | the matter. The judge may sign a judgment or order in any of the |
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| 21 | 21 | | courts regardless of whether the case is transferred. The |
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| 22 | 22 | | judgment, order, or action is valid and binding as if the case were |
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| 23 | 23 | | pending in the court of the judge who acts in the matter. The |
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| 24 | 24 | | authority of this subsection applies to an active judge or a former |
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| 25 | 25 | | or retired judge assigned to a statutory probate court. |
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| 26 | 26 | | SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |
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| 27 | 27 | | * * * * * |
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