Bill Text: TX HB3081 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to a person qualified to serve as a temporary justice of the peace.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-14 - Effective on 9/1/19 [HB3081 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3081-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 3081 |
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relating to a person qualified to serve as a temporary justice of | ||
the peace. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 27.055(c) and (e), Government Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
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person" means a person who has served as a justice of the peace, | ||
county judge, or the judge of a county court at law for not less than | ||
four [ |
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offense that involves moral turpitude. | ||
(e) The county judge may appoint any qualified voter under | ||
Section 11.002, Election Code, who has experience and knowledge | ||
relevant to judicial or justice court processes and procedures and | ||
is approved by the county judge and a justice of the peace in the | ||
county, to serve as a temporary justice of the peace if the judge | ||
cannot find a qualified person who agrees to serve under this | ||
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SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a temporary justice of the peace appointed on or after the | ||
effective date of this Act. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 3081 was passed by the House on May 7, | ||
2019, by the following vote: Yeas 146, Nays 0, 2 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 3081 on May 24, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 133, Nays 7, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 3081 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 22, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |