Bill Text: TX HB3249 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to regular reporting of district court workload.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-11 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3249 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3249-Comm_Sub.html
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By: A. Johnson of Harris | H.B. No. 3249 |
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relating to regular reporting of district court workload. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 72, Government Code, is | ||
amended by amending Section 72.039 to read as follows: | ||
Sec. 72.039. DISTRICT COURT WORKLOAD ANALYSIS. (a) In this | ||
section: | ||
(1) "Judicial officer" means a district judge, | ||
associate judge, master, magistrate, or referee; and | ||
(2) "Clearance rate" has the same meaning as that term | ||
is defined in Section 72.083. | ||
(b) The office shall biennially conduct a district court | ||
workload analysis by collecting information on the 30 most populous | ||
counties in the state relating to: | ||
(1) the number of estimated full-time equivalent | ||
judicial officers working in the county in the preceding fiscal | ||
year; | ||
(2) the number of full-time equivalent judicial | ||
officers needed in the county based on the most recent weighted | ||
caseload study; | ||
(3) the number of new case filings in each of the | ||
preceding five fiscal years; | ||
(4) the clearance rate of cases in each of the | ||
preceding five fiscal years; | ||
(5) the calendar year in which the last district court | ||
was created by statute; and | ||
(6) any other information identified by the director. | ||
(c) No later than October 1st of every even-numbered year, | ||
the office shall report to the governor, lieutenant governor, and | ||
the members of the legislature the information collected under | ||
Subsection (b). | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. |