Bill Text: TX HB3792 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to clerks of justice courts and deputy constables.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-04-23 - Withdrawn from schedule [HB3792 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB3792-Introduced.html
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By: Goldman | H.B. No. 3792 |
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relating to clerks of justice courts and deputy constables. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 27.056(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) Each justice of the peace may designate one or more | ||
persons to serve as clerk of the justice court. A clerk of the | ||
justice court serves at the pleasure of the justice of the peace. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 86.011, Local Government Code, is | ||
amended by adding Subsection (a-1) to read as follows: | ||
(a-1) An elected constable may designate a person serving as | ||
a deputy constable as the chief deputy constable. The chief deputy | ||
constable serves at the pleasure of the elected constable. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 158.013(b), Local Government Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(b) This subchapter does not apply to: | ||
(1) assistant district attorneys, investigators, or | ||
other employees of a district or criminal district attorney, except | ||
as provided by Section 158.007; | ||
(2) the official shorthand reporter of a court; [ |
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(3) an elected or appointed officer under the | ||
constitution; | ||
(4) a chief deputy constable appointed under Section | ||
86.011; or | ||
(5) a clerk of a justice of the peace appointed under | ||
Section 27.056, Government Code. | ||
SECTION 4. 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, 2019. |