Bill Text: TX HB669 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Relating to the inclusion of a magistrate's name on certain signed orders.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-05-24 - Removed from local & uncontested calendar [HB669 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB669-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Canales, Moody, Collier | H.B. No. 669 | |
| (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa) | ||
| (In the Senate - Received from the House April 18, 2017; | ||
| May 2, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
| Affairs; May 18, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
| Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 18, 2017, sent to printer.) | ||
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| relating to the inclusion of a magistrate's name on certain signed | ||
| orders. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Chapter 2, Code of Criminal Procedure, is | ||
| amended by adding Article 2.101 to read as follows: | ||
| Art. 2.101. MAGISTRATE'S NAME ON SIGNED ORDER. Any signed | ||
| order that is issued by a magistrate under this code or any signed | ||
| order pertaining to a criminal matter that is issued by a magistrate | ||
| under the Family Code, Government Code, or other law of this state | ||
| must include, with the magistrate's signature, the magistrate's | ||
| name in legible handwriting, legible typewritten form, or legible | ||
| stamp print. | ||
| SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act in adding | ||
| Article 2.101, Code of Criminal Procedure, applies to a signed | ||
| order issued by a magistrate on or after the effective date of this | ||
| Act. A signed order issued by a magistrate before the effective | ||
| date of this Act is governed by the law in effect on the date the | ||
| order was issued, and the former law is continued in effect for that | ||
| purpose. | ||
| SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. | ||
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