Bill Text: TX HB922 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the creation of a county court at law in Atascosa County.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-11 - Left pending in committee [HB922 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB922-Introduced.html
| 83R2943 CAE-F | ||
| By: Guillen | H.B. No. 922 | |
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| relating to the creation of a county court at law in Atascosa | ||
| County. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter C, Chapter 25, Government Code, is | ||
| amended by adding Sections 25.0091 and 25.0092 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 25.0091. ATASCOSA COUNTY. Atascosa County has one | ||
| statutory county court, the County Court at Law of Atascosa County. | ||
| Sec. 25.0092. ATASCOSA COUNTY COURT AT LAW PROVISIONS. (a) | ||
| In addition to the jurisdiction provided by Section 25.0003 and | ||
| other law, and except as limited by Subsection (b), a county court | ||
| at law in Atascosa County has concurrent jurisdiction with the | ||
| district court in: | ||
| (1) Class A and Class B misdemeanor cases; | ||
| (2) family law matters; | ||
| (3) juvenile matters; | ||
| (4) probate matters; and | ||
| (5) appeals from the justice and municipal courts. | ||
| (b) A county court at law does not have general supervisory | ||
| control or appellate review of the commissioners court or | ||
| jurisdiction of: | ||
| (1) suits on behalf of this state to recover penalties | ||
| or escheated property; | ||
| (2) misdemeanors involving official misconduct; or | ||
| (3) contested elections. | ||
| (c) The judge of a county court at law must have the same | ||
| qualifications as those required by law for a district judge. | ||
| (d) The judge of a county court at law shall be paid a total | ||
| annual salary set by the commissioners court at an amount that is | ||
| not less than $1,000 less than the total annual salary received by a | ||
| district judge in the county. A district judge's or statutory | ||
| county court judge's total annual salary does not include | ||
| contributions and supplements paid by a county. | ||
| (e) The district clerk serves as clerk of a county court at | ||
| law in matters of concurrent jurisdiction with the district court, | ||
| and the county clerk shall serve as clerk of a county court at law in | ||
| all other matters. Each clerk shall establish a separate docket for | ||
| a county court at law. | ||
| (f) The official court reporter of a county court at law is | ||
| entitled to receive a salary set by the judge of the county court at | ||
| law with the approval of the commissioners court. | ||
| (g) Jurors summoned for a county court at law or a district | ||
| court in the county may by order of the judge of the court to which | ||
| they are summoned be transferred to another court for service and | ||
| may be used as if summoned for the court to which they are | ||
| transferred. | ||
| SECTION 2. Notwithstanding Section 25.0091, Government | ||
| Code, as added by this Act, the County Court at Law of Atascosa | ||
| County is created January 1, 2014, or on an earlier date determined | ||
| by the Commissioners Court of Atascosa County by an order entered in | ||
| its minutes. | ||
| SECTION 3. 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, 2013. | ||
