Bill Text: TX HB3434 | 2011-2012 | 82nd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to continuing judicial training.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-03-18 - Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence [HB3434 Detail]
Download: Texas-2011-HB3434-Introduced.html
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By: Raymond | H.B. No. 3434 |
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relating to continuing judicial training. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 56.006, Government Code, is amended by | ||
adding Subsections (c), (d), and (e) to read as follows: | ||
(c) The court of criminal appeals may not adopt rules that | ||
require judges to complete continuing judicial training more | ||
frequently than every two years. | ||
(d) In adopting rules on continuing judicial training, the | ||
court of criminal appeals must adopt rules that require: | ||
(1) a judge to complete continuing judicial training | ||
in an even-numbered year; and | ||
(2) the training to include a legislative update of | ||
the preceding legislative session on laws enacted or amended that | ||
affect the judiciary. | ||
(e) The court of criminal appeals may not approve an | ||
organization to sponsor continuing judicial training for judges in | ||
this state unless the organization at a minimum provides training | ||
to municipal, county court, statutory county court, and district | ||
judges. This subsection does not prohibit the organization from | ||
providing training courses on topics specific to the judges of | ||
certain courts. | ||
SECTION 2. (a) Not later than December 1, 2011, the court of | ||
criminal appeals shall adopt the rules required by Section 56.006, | ||
Government Code, as amended by this Act. | ||
(b) Notwithstanding Section 56.006, Government Code, as | ||
amended by this Act, a judge is not required to comply with the | ||
continuing judicial training requirements of that section and rules | ||
adopted under that section until the year beginning January 1, | ||
2012. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2011. |