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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