Bill Text: TX HB409 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relating to the governance and administration of the Texas Indigent Defense Commission and to certain disclosures made in relation to the provision of funding for indigent defense services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-06-13 - Effective on 9/1/23 [HB409 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-HB409-Enrolled.html
H.B. No. 409 |
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relating to the governance and administration of the Texas Indigent | ||
Defense Commission and to certain disclosures made in relation to | ||
the provision of funding for indigent defense services. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Sections 79.014(a) and (b), Government Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) The governor shall appoint with the advice and consent | ||
of the senate seven [ |
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(1) one member who is a district judge serving as a | ||
presiding judge of an administrative judicial region; | ||
(2) one member who is a judge of a constitutional | ||
county court or who is a county commissioner; | ||
(3) one member who is a practicing criminal defense | ||
attorney; | ||
(4) one member who is a chief public defender in this | ||
state [ |
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(5) one member who is a judge of a constitutional | ||
county court or who is a county commissioner of a county with a | ||
population of 250,000 or more; | ||
(6) one member who is either: | ||
(A) a director of a managed assigned counsel | ||
program in this state; or | ||
(B) a person who has a demonstrated expertise in | ||
indigent defense issues; and | ||
(7) one member who is a justice of the peace, municipal | ||
court judge, or appointed magistrate under Article 2.09, Code of | ||
Criminal Procedure, whose regular duties include presiding over | ||
hearings under Article 15.17, Code of Criminal Procedure. | ||
(b) The board members serve staggered terms of two years, | ||
with three [ |
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odd-numbered year and four [ |
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1 of each even-numbered year. | ||
SECTION 2. Sections 79.016(a) and (c), Government Code, are | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(a) A board member who is a chief public defender or a | ||
director of a managed assigned counsel program for [ |
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shall disclose that fact before a vote by the board regarding an | ||
award of funds to that entity and may not participate in that vote. | ||
(c) The commission may not award funds under Section 79.037 | ||
to an entity served by a chief public defender or a director of a | ||
managed assigned counsel program [ |
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a disclosure to the board as required by Subsection (a). | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
______________________________ | ______________________________ | |
President of the Senate | Speaker of the House | |
I certify that H.B. No. 409 was passed by the House on April | ||
27, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 141, Nays 5, 1 present, not | ||
voting; and that the House concurred in Senate amendments to H.B. | ||
No. 409 on May 25, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 125, Nays 11, | ||
2 present, not voting. | ||
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Chief Clerk of the House | ||
I certify that H.B. No. 409 was passed by the Senate, with | ||
amendments, on May 19, 2023, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays | ||
0. | ||
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Secretary of the Senate | ||
APPROVED: __________________ | ||
Date | ||
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Governor |