Bill Text: TX HB4147 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to a defendant's right to appeal from a judgment or conviction in a municipal court of record.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-01 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB4147 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB4147-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to a defendant's right to appeal from a judgment or conviction in a municipal court of record.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-06-01 - Effective on 9/1/17 [HB4147 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB4147-Comm_Sub.html
By: Kacal (Senate Sponsor - Birdwell) | H.B. No. 4147 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 5, 2017; | ||
May 8, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal | ||
Justice; May 19, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 7, Nays 0; May 19, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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relating to a defendant's right to appeal from a judgment or | ||
conviction in a municipal court of record. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 30.00014(a), Government Code, is amended | ||
to read as follows: | ||
(a) A defendant has the right of appeal from a judgment or | ||
conviction in a municipal court of record. The state has the right | ||
to appeal as provided by Article 44.01, Code of Criminal Procedure. | ||
The county criminal courts or county criminal courts of appeal in | ||
the county in which the municipality is located or the municipal | ||
courts of appeal have jurisdiction of appeals from a municipal | ||
court of record. If there is no county criminal court, county | ||
criminal court of appeal, or municipal court of appeal, the county | ||
courts at law have jurisdiction of an appeal. If a county does not | ||
have a county court at law under Chapter 25, the county court has | ||
jurisdiction of any appeal. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act is intended | ||
only to clarify existing law with respect to a judgment or | ||
conviction that occurs in a municipal court of record and is | ||
appealed to a county court. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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