Bill Text: TX HB2727 | 2015-2016 | 84th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the administration of multicounty statutory county courts and to the 1st Multicounty Court at Law.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-16 - Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence [HB2727 Detail]
Download: Texas-2015-HB2727-Introduced.html
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| By: King of Taylor | H.B. No. 2727 | |
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| relating to the administration of multicounty statutory county | ||
| courts and to the 1st Multicounty Court at Law. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter D, Chapter 25, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 25.2607 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 25.2607. DESIGNATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTY FOR | ||
| MULTICOUNTY STATUTORY COUNTY COURTS. (a) If a statute that | ||
| establishes a multicounty statutory county court does not designate | ||
| one of the counties that compose the multicounty statutory county | ||
| court as the administrative county for that court, the county with | ||
| the greatest population of the counties composing the court at the | ||
| time the court is established is the administrative county for that | ||
| court. | ||
| (b) The commissioners courts of the counties that compose a | ||
| multicounty statutory county court may enter into an agreement to | ||
| provide support for the court. The administrative county for the | ||
| court may receive contributions from the other counties composing | ||
| the court to pay the operating expenses of the court. | ||
| (c) Except for money provided by state appropriations or | ||
| under an agreement under Subsection (b), the administrative county | ||
| shall pay out of the county's general fund the salaries, | ||
| compensation, and expenses incurred in operating the multicounty | ||
| statutory county court. | ||
| (d) Notwithstanding Section 25.0015, the state shall | ||
| annually compensate the administrative county of a multicounty | ||
| statutory county court in an amount equal to 100 percent of the | ||
| state salary of a district court judge in the county for the salary | ||
| of the judge of the multicounty statutory county court. | ||
| (e) The court fees and costs collected by the clerk of a | ||
| multicounty statutory county court shall be deposited in the | ||
| appropriate county fund as provided by law. | ||
| SECTION 2. Section 25.2701, Government Code, is amended to | ||
| read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 25.2701. 1ST MULTICOUNTY COURT AT LAW (FISHER[ |
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| Counties have a multicounty statutory county court composed of | ||
| those counties, the 1st Multicounty Court at Law. | ||
| SECTION 3. Section 25.2702, Government Code, is amended by | ||
| adding Subsection (c-1) to read as follows: | ||
| (c-1) Nolan County is the administrative county for the 1st | ||
| Multicounty Court at Law. | ||
| SECTION 4. Section 25.2702(g), Government Code, is | ||
| repealed. | ||
| SECTION 5. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) of this | ||
| section, this Act takes effect immediately if it receives a vote of | ||
| two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as provided by | ||
| Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this Act does not | ||
| receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this Act takes | ||
| effect September 1, 2015. | ||
| (b) Section 2 of this Act, amending Section 25.2701, | ||
| Government Code, takes effect January 1, 2019. | ||
