Bill Text: TX HB549 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to an objection to the judge assigned in a criminal case.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-18 - Left pending in committee [HB549 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB549-Introduced.html
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| By: Canales | H.B. No. 549 | |
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| relating to an objection to the judge assigned in a criminal case. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Section 74.053(b), Government Code, is amended | ||
| to read as follows: | ||
| (b) If a party to a civil or criminal case files a timely | ||
| objection to the assignment, the judge shall not hear the case. | ||
| Except as provided by Subsection (d), each party to the case is only | ||
| entitled to one objection under this section for that case. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
| to the right to object to the assignment of a judge assigned under | ||
| Chapter 74, Government Code, on or after the effective date of this | ||
| Act. An objection to the assignment of a judge assigned under | ||
| Chapter 74, Government Code, before the effective date of this Act | ||
| is governed by the law in effect on the date of assignment, and the | ||
| former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2019. | ||
