Bill Text: TX HB93 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Enrolled

Texas House Bill 93 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to the inclusion of a magistrate's name on certain signed orders.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)

Status: (Vetoed) 2019-06-15 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB93 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB93-Enrolled.html



	H.B. No. 93




	AN ACT
	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, the 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, 2019.


	______________________________	______________________________
	President of the Senate	Speaker of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 93 was passed by the House on April
	10, 2019, by the following vote: Yeas 145, Nays 0, 2 present, not
	voting.

	______________________________
	Chief Clerk of the House


	I certify that H.B. No. 93 was passed by the Senate on May 21,
	2019, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.

	______________________________
	Secretary of the Senate
	APPROVED: _____________________
	Date

	_____________________
	Governor