Bill Text: TX HB2369 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the county courts at law in Bexar County.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-15 - Laid on the table subject to call [HB2369 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2369-Introduced.html
84R3436 CAE-F | ||
By: Rodriguez of Bexar | H.B. No. 2369 |
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relating to the county courts at law in Bexar County. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 25.0172(c), (c-1), (j), (v), and (w), | ||
Government Code, are amended to read as follows: | ||
(c) Any of the county courts at law may hear [ |
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criminal cases and appeals de novo from the municipal and justice | ||
courts. | ||
(c-1) The County Courts [ |
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Bexar County, Texas, shall give preference to cases prosecuted | ||
under: | ||
(1) Section 22.01, Penal Code, in which the victim is a | ||
person whose relationship to or association with the defendant is | ||
described by Chapter 71, Family Code; and | ||
(2) Section 25.07 or 25.072, Penal Code. | ||
(j) The judge of a county court at law shall be paid as | ||
provided by Section 25.0005 [ |
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compensation shall be paid out of the county's general fund or | ||
officers' salary fund. [ |
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Before raising a salary the commissioners court must publish notice | ||
containing information of the salaries affected and the amount of | ||
the proposed raise in a newspaper of general circulation in the | ||
county. The commissioners court may raise the salaries of the | ||
county court at law judges only after 10 days' notice and only at a | ||
regular meeting of the commissioners court. | ||
(v) Section 25.0006 [ |
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court at law in [ |
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(w) This section does not apply to the statutory probate | ||
courts [ |
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SECTION 2. Sections 25.0172(a), (b), and (i), Government | ||
Code, are repealed. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2015. |