Bill Text: TX SB302 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the payment of certain costs associated with certain assignments of a statutory probate court judge.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [SB302 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-SB302-Introduced.html
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| By: Perry | S.B. No. 302 | |
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| relating to the payment of certain costs associated with certain | ||
| assignments of a statutory probate court judge. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 352, Estates Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 352.054 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 352.054. REIMBURSEMENT FOR CERTAIN COSTS FOR ASSIGNED | ||
| JUDGE. A statutory probate court judge assigned to hear a contested | ||
| matter on the motion under Section 32.003 of a party to the | ||
| proceeding shall, to the extent possible, order the estate to | ||
| reimburse a county for any amounts the county paid as compensation | ||
| and expenses in accordance with Section 25.0022(o-1), Government | ||
| Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 25.0022, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (o-1) and amending Subsection (p) to read as | ||
| follows: | ||
| (o-1) If a party to a probate proceeding files a motion for | ||
| the assignment of a statutory probate court judge to hear a | ||
| contested matter in the proceeding under Section 32.003, Estates | ||
| Code, and the motion is granted, the assigned statutory probate | ||
| court judge shall: | ||
| (1) to the extent possible, order that the county be | ||
| reimbursed for any amounts the county paid as compensation and | ||
| expenses under Subsections (o) and (p) from the estate under | ||
| Section 352.054, Estates Code, and from the parties to the | ||
| proceeding; and | ||
| (2) prescribe the amount and manner by which the | ||
| compensation and expenses described by Subdivision (1) are to be | ||
| equitably apportioned among the estate and parties, as applicable. | ||
| (p) In addition to all compensation and expenses authorized | ||
| by this section and other law, a judge who is assigned to a court | ||
| outside the county of the judge's residence is entitled to receive | ||
| $25 for each day or fraction of a day served. Subject to Subsection | ||
| (o-1), the [ |
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| additional compensation from the county's general fund on | ||
| certification by the presiding judge. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 25.0022, Government Code, as amended by | ||
| this Act, applies only to a motion for the assignment of a statutory | ||
| probate court judge under Section 32.003, Estates Code, that is | ||
| filed on or after the effective date of this Act. A motion filed | ||
| before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in | ||
| effect on the date the motion was filed, and the former law is | ||
| continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2025. | ||
