Bill Text: TX HB1875 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a case transferred from one district court to another district court.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2013-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/13 [HB1875 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB1875-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 1875 |
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relating to a case transferred from one district court to another | ||
district court. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 24.003, Government Code, is amended by | ||
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (b-1) to read as | ||
follows: | ||
(b) Unless provided otherwise by the local rules of | ||
administration, a district judge in the county may: | ||
(1) except as provided by Subsection (b-1), transfer | ||
any civil or criminal case or proceeding on the court's docket, | ||
other than a case governed by Chapter 155, Family Code, to the | ||
docket of another district court in the county; | ||
(2) hear and determine any case or proceeding pending | ||
in another district court in the county without having the case | ||
transferred; | ||
(3) sit for another district court in the county and | ||
hear and determine any case or proceeding pending in that court; | ||
(4) temporarily exchange benches with the judge of | ||
another district court in the county; | ||
(5) try different cases in the same court at the same | ||
time; and | ||
(6) occupy the judge's own courtroom or the courtroom | ||
of another district court in the county. | ||
(b-1) Notwithstanding the local rules of administration, a | ||
district judge may not transfer any civil or criminal case or | ||
proceeding to the docket of another district court without the | ||
consent of the judge of the court to which it is transferred. | ||
SECTION 2. This Act applies only to the transfer of a case | ||
or proceeding to the docket of another district court that occurs on | ||
or after the effective date of this Act. The transfer of a case or | ||
proceeding that occurs before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the case or proceeding is | ||
transferred, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 1875 was passed by the House on May 2, | ||
2013, by the following vote: Yeas 147, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting. | ||
______________________________ | ||
Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 1875 was passed by the Senate on May | ||
22, 2013, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: _____________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |