88R12484 AMF-F     By: Anderson H.B. No. 5378       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to the jurisdiction and operation of the county courts at   law in McLennan County.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Sections 25.1572(a), (d), and (e), Government   Code, are amended to read as follows:          (a)  In addition to the jurisdiction provided by Section   25.0003 and other law and except as limited by Subsection (b), a   county court at law in McLennan County has:                (1)  concurrent jurisdiction with the district courts   in state jail, third degree, and second degree felony cases and   family law cases on assignment from a district judge presiding in   McLennan County and acceptance of the assignment by the judge of the   county court at law to:                      (A)  conduct arraignments;                      (B)  conduct pretrial hearings;                      (C)  accept guilty pleas and conduct sentencing;                      (D)  conduct jury trials and nonjury trials;                      (E)  conduct probation revocation hearings;                      (F)  conduct post-trial proceedings; and                      (G)  conduct family law cases and proceedings; and                (2)  jurisdiction in:                       (A)  Class A and Class B misdemeanor cases;                      (B)  probate proceedings;                       (C)  eminent domain;                       (D)  appeals from the justice and municipal   courts; and                      (E)  disputes ancillary to probate, eminent   domain, condemnation, or landlord and tenant matters relating to   the adjudication and determination of land titles and trusts,   whether testamentary, inter vivos, constructive, resulting, or any   other class or type of trust, regardless of the amount in   controversy or the remedy sought [to conduct arraignments, conduct   pretrial hearings, accept guilty pleas, and conduct probation   revocation hearings in felony cases].          (d)  A judge of a county court at law shall be paid a total    [an] annual [base] salary set by the commissioners court in an   amount not less than $1,000 less than the annual [base] salary   received by [the state pays to] a district judge [as set by the   General Appropriations Act in accordance with Section 659.012] with   equivalent years of service as a [the] judge, as provided under   Section 25.0005, to be paid out of the county treasury by the   commissioners court.  [A county court at law judge's and a district   judge's annual base salaries do not include contributions and   supplements paid by the county.]          (e)  The district clerk serves as clerk of a county court at   law in cases instituted in the district courts in which the county   courts at law have [matters of] concurrent jurisdiction with the   district court. The county clerk serves as the clerk of a county   court at law in all other matters. Each clerk shall establish a   separate docket for a county court at law.          SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.