88R9746 AMF-F     By: Allison H.B. No. 2567       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to the creation of Probate Court No. 3 of Bexar County,   Texas, and the administration of the statutory probate courts in   Bexar County.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Section 25.0171(c), Government Code, is amended   to read as follows:          (c)  Bexar County also has the following statutory probate   courts:                (1)  Probate Court No. 1 of Bexar County, Texas; [and]                (2)  Probate Court No. 2 of Bexar County, Texas; and                (3)  Probate Court No. 3 of Bexar County, Texas.          SECTION 2.  Section 25.0173, Government Code, is amended by   amending Subsections (a) and (o) and adding Subsection (p) to read   as follows:          (a)  A statutory probate court in Bexar County has the   general jurisdiction of a probate court as provided by Section   25.0021.  Probate Courts Nos. 1, [and] 2, and 3 have eminent domain   jurisdiction and jurisdiction to decide the issue of title to real   or personal property.  Notwithstanding the local rules adopted   under Section 74.093, the county clerk shall docket all eminent   domain cases equally among [in] Probate Courts Nos. [Court No.] 1,   [and Probate Court No.] 2, and 3.          (o)  Notwithstanding the local rules adopted under Section   74.093, the county clerk shall:                (1)  docket all mental health matters in Probate Court   No. 1; and                (2)  assign equally among the statutory probate courts   in Bexar County and [shall] docket at random all other matters and   proceedings filed in the statutory probate courts in Bexar County   [even-numbered probate cases in Probate Court No. 2 and all   odd-numbered probate cases in Probate Court No. 1].          (p)  Notwithstanding Section 25.0022(h), in the absence,   disqualification, or incapacity of a statutory probate judge in   Bexar County or on the judge's request, the statutory probate   judges in Bexar County may sit and act for each other in any probate   matter or proceeding.  A statutory probate judge in Bexar County   may:                (1)  hear and determine any matter or proceeding   pending in another statutory probate court in Bexar County; or                (2)  enter any order in the matter or proceeding that   the judge of the other statutory probate court in Bexar County may   enter.          SECTION 3.  Section 25.0173(j), Government Code, is   repealed.          SECTION 4.  The Probate Court No. 3 of Bexar County, Texas,   is created on September 1, 2023.          SECTION 5.  Notwithstanding Section 25.0173, Government   Code, as amended by this Act, the county clerk for Bexar County   shall assign to Probate Court No. 3 of Bexar County, Texas,   one-third of all cases pending on the effective date of this Act in   Probate Court No. 1 of Bexar County, Texas, and Probate Court No. 2   of Bexar County, Texas, that were filed before January 1, 2020.          SECTION 6.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2023.