Bill Text: TX HB3675 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to required management training for and proceedings for removal of certain prosecuting attorneys.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-11 - Placed on General State Calendar [HB3675 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB3675-Comm_Sub.html
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| By: Ortega | H.B. No. 3675 | ||
| Substitute the following for H.B. No. 3675: | |||
| By: Flores | C.S.H.B. No. 3675 | ||
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| relating to required management training for and proceedings for | ||
| removal of certain prosecuting attorneys. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 41, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Section 41.016 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 41.016. TRAINING FOR CERTAIN PROSECUTORS. (a) A | ||
| district attorney or criminal district attorney who is elected or | ||
| appointed to serve a judicial district that includes a county with a | ||
| population of more than 850,000 shall complete, either in person or | ||
| online, a 10-hour training course on management responsibility, | ||
| resources, and methods not later than the first anniversary of the | ||
| date the attorney was first elected or appointed. | ||
| (b) The State Bar of Texas shall credit a district attorney | ||
| or criminal district attorney who completes a course under this | ||
| section with 10 continuing legal education hours. | ||
| (c) A district attorney or criminal district attorney who | ||
| fails to complete the training required by this section is | ||
| incompetent for purposes of removal under Chapter 87, Local | ||
| Government Code. | ||
| SECTION 2. Subchapter B, Chapter 87, Local Government Code, | ||
| is amended by adding Section 87.0171 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 87.0171. MANDATORY DISMISSAL IN CERTAIN CASES. The | ||
| district judge adjudicating a petition for removal of a district | ||
| attorney in which the only alleged cause for removal is a violation | ||
| of Section 41.016, Government Code, shall dismiss the case if the | ||
| district attorney completes the training required by that section | ||
| not later than the 30th day after the date the petition is filed | ||
| under Section 87.015. | ||
| SECTION 3. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), | ||
| Section 41.016, Government Code, as added by this Act, applies only | ||
| to a district attorney or criminal district attorney who is first | ||
| elected or appointed on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
| (b) A district attorney or criminal district attorney who on | ||
| the effective date of this Act serves a judicial district that | ||
| includes a county with a population of more than 850,000 shall | ||
| complete the training required by Section 41.016, Government Code, | ||
| as added by this Act, not later than September 1, 2024. | ||
| SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
