By: Eltife S.B. No. 2068
(In the Senate - Filed April 29, 2015; April 29, 2015, read
first time and referred to Committee on Intergovernmental
Relations; May 8, 2015, reported favorably by the following vote:
Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 8, 2015, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the Harrison County Court at Law.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 25.1042(a) and (g), Government Code,
are amended to read as follows:
(a) In addition to the jurisdiction provided by Section
25.0003 and other law, a county court at law in Harrison County has
concurrent jurisdiction with the district court, on assignment of a
district judge presiding in Harrison County, in:
(1) family law cases and proceedings;
(2) felony cases other than capital murder cases; and
(3) civil cases.
(g) The criminal district attorney is entitled to the same
fees prescribed by law for prosecutions in the county court, except
that in cases assigned under Subsection (a), the criminal district
attorney is entitled to the same fees prescribed by law for
prosecutions in a district court.
SECTION 2. Section 25.1042(a), Government Code, as amended
by this Act, applies only to an action filed in a district court in
Harrison County on or after the effective date of this Act. An
action filed in a district court in Harrison County 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, 2015.
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