Bill Text: TX HB93 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Comm Sub
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Bill Title: Relating to the inclusion of a magistrate's name on certain signed orders.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2019-06-15 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB93 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB93-Comm_Sub.html
Bill Title: Relating to the inclusion of a magistrate's name on certain signed orders.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2019-06-15 - Vetoed by the Governor [HB93 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HB93-Comm_Sub.html
By: Canales (Senate Sponsor - Hinojosa) | H.B. No. 93 | |
(In the Senate - Received from the House April 11, 2019; | ||
April 15, 2019, read first time and referred to Committee on State | ||
Affairs; May 14, 2019, reported favorably by the following vote: | ||
Yeas 9, Nays 0; May 14, 2019, 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, 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. | ||
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